The official Wholesale Price Index for ‘All Commodities’ (Base: 2011-12=100) for the month of June2019 rose by 0.2 per cent to 121.5 (provisional) from 121.2 (provisional) for the previous month.
As per the data released by the Ministry of Commerce, the index for ‘Manufacture of Textiles’ group declined by 0.3 per cent to 119.3 (provisional) from 119.7 (provisional) for the previous month due to lower price of viscose yarn, synthetic yarn and texturised and twisted yarn (1 per cent each).
However, the manufacturing price of knitted and crocheted fabrics and other textiles (1 per cent) moved up.
Similarly, the index for ‘Manufacture of Wearing Apparel’ group declined by 0.4 per cent to 138.7 (provisional) from 139.2 (provisional) for the previous month due to lower manufacturing price of wearing apparel (woven), except fur apparel (1 per cent).
The index for ‘Manufacture of Leather and Related Products’ group declined by 0.4 per cent to 119.2 (provisional) from 119.7 (provisional) for the previous month due to lower price of athletic/sports shoes (3 per cent) and vegetable tanned leather, leather shoe and waterproof footwear (1 per cent each). However, the price of belt & other articles of leather (3 per cent) moved up.
