An eight per cent decrease in the price of vegetables and three per cent in other food items pushed down inflation to more than a two-decade low of 1.57 per cent in the week ended January 12, as compared to 8.84 per cent in the comparable period of the previous year.
The second reported week of January saw a 0.39 per cent dip in commodity prices based on the wholesale price index (WPI) from the previous week