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The all-India Consumer Price Index for Urban Non-Manual Employees CPI(UNME) base 1984-85=100, for the month of February, 2005 was released here today by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation together with the indices for 59 selected urban centres in India. The all-India CPI(UNME) for February, 2005 is 440 which has not shown any change from the index for the previous month i.e. January, 2005. At the group level, the index for February, 2005 when compared to last month i.e. January 2005, has increased by 0.38 percent in respect of "Fuel & Light" group followed by 0.22 percent in respect of "Miscellaneous" group and decreased by 0.24 percent in respect of "Food, Beverages & Tobacco" group. With the corresponding all-India index for February, 2004 being 424, the index for the month of February, 2005 has shown a rise of 3.8% over a year.
Statement-1 gives the CPI(UNME) for all-India and 59 selected urban centres in the country for February, 2005; together with the indices for the preceding five months. The CPI(UNME) for February, 2005 in respect of four metropolitan cities of India, together with the corresponding indices for the previous month and also for February, 2004 are given below:-
City
February, 2004
January, 2005
February, 2005
Kolkata
390
398
400
Chennai
506
528
528
Delhi
429
458
459
Mumbai
420
440
438
Statement-2 gives a comparison of CPI(UNME) for February, 2005 in respect of 59 selected urban centres with the indices for the corresponding month of last year, namely February, 2004. Percentage change in the index is shown in the last column. From the statement, it may be noted that the variation in the index for various centres ranges from -1.8 to 9.4 percent; with the largest increase being in the case of Asansol and the least in the case of Imphal. The increases are -1.8 to 0.0 percent for 1 centre, 0.0 to 2.0 percent for 7 centres, 2.1 to 4.0 percent for 32 centres, 4.1 to 6.0 percent for 12 centres and 6.1 percent and above, for 7 centres. As many as 36 centres have lower annual percentage increase as compared to that of the all-India figure of 3.8 percent and 2 centres have recorded equal percentage increase, while 21 centres have recorded higher percentage increase as compared to the all-India average. Statements I & II details follow :-
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