India's inflation based on wholesale price index (WPI) stood at 10.66% in September 2021 compared with 1.32% in September 2020.
"The high rate of inflation in September 2021 is primarily due to rise in prices of mineral oils, basic metals, non-food articles, food products, crude petroleum & natural gas, chemicals and chemical products, etc. compared with the corresponding month of the previous year," the Ministry of Commerce & Industry said in a statement today.
WPI grew 11.39% in August 2021, while the figure for July was 11.57%.
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