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Wholesale inflation dips to 0.13% in Sep on easing food, fuel prices
Mint Kolkata
|October 15, 2025
India’s wholesale inflation eased in September after a sharp rise in the previous month, helped by a decline in food and fuel prices, provisional data from the commerce and industry ministry showed on Tuesday.
The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation fell to 0.13% in September, from 0.52% in August, after staying in negative territory in July -0.58% and Jume-0,19%, Economists polled by Reuters had projected the WPI to rise 0.50% year-on-year in September. A year earlier, WPI inflation stood at 1.91%.
Food inflation, a key driver of the index, turned negative at -1.99% in September, compared with 0.21% in August, -2.15% in July, and -0.26% in June. The fall in September was led by lower prices of vegetables, wheat, pulses, and oilseeds. Prices of cereals and paddy also fell from August.
This story is from the October 15, 2025 edition of Mint Kolkata.
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