Key Highlights

In the revised series, WPI will continue to constitute three Major Groups,namely Primary Articles, Fuel & Power and Manufactured Products.

Highlights of the changes introduced in the new series are summarized below:

♤ Updated item basket and weighting structure conforming to the structure of economy in 2011-12.

♤ Increase in number of items from 676 to 697. In all 199 new items have been added and 146 old items have been dropped.

♤ The new series is more representative with increase in number of quotations from 5482 to 8331, an increase by 2849 quotations (52%).