The index for primary articles group declined by 1.0 percent to 246.6 from 249.0 for the previous month. 

The index for ‘Food Articles’ group declined by 0.1 percent to 252.4 from 252.7 for the previous month due to lower price of egg (4%), jowar (3%), beef & buffalo meat and mutton (2% each) and fruits & vegetables and fish-inland (1% each). However, the price of urad (7%), masur and gram (5% each), arhar, moong and barley (4% each), maize (3%), fish-marine and bajra (2% each) and ragi, wheat, pork and condiments & spices (1% each) moved up.

The index for ‘Non-Food Articles’ group declined by 0.7 percent to 207.6 from 209.1 for the previous month due to lower price of flowers (9%), cotton seed (7%), raw silk (5%), raw cotton (3%), sunflower, gingelly seed and castor seed (2% each) and fodder (1%).  However, the price of niger seed (6%), raw rubber (5%), copra (coconut) (4%), soyabean (3%), rape & mustard seed and mesta (2% each) and gaur seed and groundnut seed (1% each) moved up.

The index for ‘Basic Metals, Alloys & Metal Products’ group declined by 0.1 percent to 164.7 from 164.8 for the previous month due to lower price of slab (5%), pig iron (4%), zinc and steel structures (2% each) and ferro silicon, steel rods, CRC, angles, rebars, silver and HRC (1% each). However, the price of iron castings (4%), nuts/ bolts/ screw/ washers (2%) and pipes/ tubes/ rods/ strips, gold & gold ornaments, sheets, plates and billets (1% each) moved up.