Overview
- The Sensitive Price Indicator reached 335.54 for the week ended November 20, up from 335.31 a week earlier.
- On a year-on-year basis, the index showed a 3.53% increase, reflecting persistent pressure in staples and utilities.
- The weekly basket covered 51 essential items across 17 urban centres, with 16 items costlier, 13 cheaper and 22 unchanged.
- The sharpest weekly gains were recorded in tomatoes (+57.03%) and LPG (+5.16%), with additional rises in sugar (+2.23%) and diesel (+2.17%).
- Annual increases were led by sugar (+43.77%), gas charges for Q1 (+29.85%) and wheat flour (+17.31%), with smaller weekly changes across all expenditure groups ranging from +0.03% to +0.09%.