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How best to rejig India's Consumer Price Index
Mint Kolkata
|October 07, 2025
The statistics ministry's effort to improve India's retail price indicator is welcome. Let's treat items of free public distribution appropriately for the sake of better data inputs for policy
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India's ministry of statistics has released a discussion paper on how items given away free by the public distribution system (PDS) should be treated by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
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