Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers

Labour Bureau
Government of India

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (Industrial Workers) Base 2001=100

Statement showing the Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles

for Industrial Workers, for the month of AUGUST 2006

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl. No	Article	Unit	Godavrikhani	Guntur	Hydera bad	Vijayawada	Vishakhapatnam	Warran gal
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Rice	Kg.	14.04	18.56	15.39	16.60	14.62	11.48
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	14.69	#	19.26	#	8.56	12.89
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	15.50	25.25	14.83	17.38	24.50	24.00
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	#	14.67	#	#	#
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	31.25	27.88	33.70	27.69	34.57	31.07
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	45.06	#	52.37	45.00	46.88	44.00
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	28.25	#	31.28	#	#	26.50
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	58.24	51.19	51.32	52.42	51.64	53.46
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	#	#	#	#	#	#
9	Vanaspati	Litre	#	#	#	#	51.25	#
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	140.00	180.00	163.33	160.00	160.00	160.00
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	60.00	54.00	42.67	45.00	42.88	#
12	Milk	Litre	12.00	18.00	18.00	16.00	18.00	15.00
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	#	15.00	16.50	16.00	16.00	#
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	#	129.22	210.00	136.50	136.50	#
15	Onion	Kg.	6.25	7.00	7.52	6.94	7.75	6.44
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	5.63	5.50	6.91	7.16	6.28	5.36
17	Sugar	Kg.	20.13	20.03	20.81	20.03	21.12	19.71
18	Gur	Kg.	#	#	24.60	25.13	19.00	#
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	15.75	22.00	16.92	21.50	22.00	21.50
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	60.00	120.00	100.00	120.00	100.00	98.52
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.50	9.50	9.50	9.50	9.50	9.50
23	Toilet Soap	75gms.	9.19	9.56	9.75	6.75	9.75	7.05
24	Washing Soap	225 gms..	4.61	15.75	7.86	8.78	16.20	9.00

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl. No	Article	Unit	Doom Dooma Tinsukia	Guwa hati	Labac Silchar	Mariani Jorhat	Rangapara Tezpur	Monghyr Jamalpur	Chandigarh	Bhilai
1	2	3	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
1	Rice	Kg.	8.96	13.00	6.96	8.62	8.62	11.00	14.67	11.62
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	10.98	#	12.58
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	3.61	13.00	3.10	3.33	3.12	12.00	11.25	14.00
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	34.67	35.25	35.00	35.00	#	34.00	33.67	30.00
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	48.00	55.00	46.50	46.00	#	50.00	51.33	50.00
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	34.00	36.00	38.00	38.00	32.50	26.00	33.33	28.00
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	52.78
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	58.00	59.00	63.20	49.00	59.00	47.32	47.33	45.50
9	Vanaspati	Litre	56.00	58.00	#	61.00	#	50.00	49.75	43.50
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	156.67	162.50	200.00	145.00	155.00	130.00	140.00	120.00
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	73.33	75.00	130.00	125.00	100.00	61.25	60.00	65.00
12	Milk	Litre	19.33	17.00	20.00	22.00	16.00	16.00	16.00	16.00
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	#	#	#	#	#	#	18.00	#
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	#	#	#	#	#	155.00	160.00	150.00
15	Onion	Kg.	12.83	8.38	10.00	10.20	11.50	7.00	9.33	6.75
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	7.83	7.06	6.50	8.00	7.00	12.50	12.33	5.00
17	Sugar	Kg.	16.40	19.46	20.08	16.94	18.70	22.00	21.38	19.50
18	Gur	Kg.	28.00	#	32.00	#	27.50	22.00	21.33	17.75
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	10.00	12.00	10.00	12.00	20.00	18.40	17.60	18.00
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	80.00	80.00	95.00	65.00	80.00	150.00	#	100.00
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	200.00	#	#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.50	14.17	9.75	9.55	9.50	9.56	9.02	9.07
23	Toilet Soap	75gm	7.20	9.38	9.38	6.60	7.20	9.75	9.75	9.00
24	Washing Soap	225 gms..	15.30	15.30	6.75	6.75	5.63	6.75	5.63	4.50

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl.No	Article	Unit	Delhi	Goa	Ahmedabad	Bhav- nagar	Rajkot	Surat
1	2	3	18	19	20	21	22	23
1	Rice	Kg.	11.14	16.19	16.25	16.08	16.49	16.36
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	8.02	15.90	12.45	12.17	11.09	12.71
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	11.07	14.54	13.26	14.00	12.00	13.04
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	12.73	#	#	#	11.76
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	32.95	33.13	32.24	34.83	34.40	32.32
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	47.76	51.75	40.98	52.87	49.33	45.52
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	30.25	29.10	30.06	31.00	#	29.24
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	65.38	72.23	51.69	58.00	58.40	53.22
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	46.61	81.25	44.99	#	53.40	49.36
9	Vanaspati	Litre	47.48	56.04	44.69	51.33	54.53	46.76
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	151.25	159.17	136.50	120.00	130.00	130.67
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	78.33	43.33	#	60.00	65.00	64.00
12	Milk	Litre	17.88	19.03	16.24	20.00	15.00	21.50
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	16.00	17.00	17.00	20.00	16.00	18.00
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	216.88	148.33	147.80	156.00	145.00	149.00
15	Onion	Kg.	8.80	7.57	8.68	9.20	7.20	7.84
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	13.53	9.17	10.00	12.00	10.33	10.28
17	Sugar	Kg.	20.72	19.71	21.06	19.93	20.41	21.00
18	Gur	Kg.	21.66	23.43	27.66	20.83	21.33	25.48
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	16.80	15.20	16.80	16.80	16.80	17.20
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	216.00	150.00	96.26	60.00	170.00	140.00
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.49	9.58	9.25	10.10	9.88	9.40
23	Toilet Soap	75gms.	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75
24	Washing Soap	225 gms.	5.75	15.08	5.85	15.30	4.95	19.13

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl. No	Article	Unit	Vadodara	Himachal Pradesh	Faridabad	Yamuna nagar	Srinagar	Bokaro	Giridih	Jamshedpur
1	2	3	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
1	Rice	Kg.	15.60	11.41	13.88	16.02	13.32	13.00	11.35	13.50
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	12.64	8.98	10.04	8.64	#	11.00	10.86	8.98
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	13.60	10.65	11.09	10.47	13.85	12.00	12.00	12.31
3	Jowar	Kg.	9.00	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	31.33	36.02	35.00	36.00	#	32.00	32.00	33.00
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	40.67	43.75	48.20	50.00	54.17	50.00	48.00	47.00
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	29.07	30.14	33.60	32.00	51.00	27.00	28.00	27.00
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	63.08	74.00	#	#	#	#	#	68.00
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	#	60.29	48.50	47.00	55.92	50.00	45.50	51.00
9	Vanaspati	Litre	50.53	49.96	48.85	50.40	55.00	48.25	55.00	54.00
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	136.00	112.86	140.00	140.00	150.00	150.00	150.00	150.00
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	76.67	72.00	51.25	60.00	96.67	60.00	60.00	50.00
12	Milk	Litre	16.00	15.14	18.00	16.00	15.00	17.00	16.00	16.00
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	17.00	19.00	16.00	18.00	#	15.00	#	15.00
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	155.00	157.50	160.00	150.00	161.67	142.00	160.00	170.00
15	Onion	Kg.	7.47	9.52	10.18	9.40	12.33	8.00	8.00	9.00
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	11.00	13.25	9.00	10.50	11.00	8.00	6.00	12.00
17	Sugar	Kg.	20.71	16.38	20.80	21.76	15.49	21.38	22.00	21.00
18	Gur	Kg.	26.00	19.61	19.85	18.00	#	20.00	20.00	21.00
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	16.80	19.26	16.80	17.60	18.27	19.60	17.60	17.60
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	100.00	87.27	160.00	120.00	90.00	120.00	90.00	80.00
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	320.00	70.00	45.00	140.00
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.26	8.78	9.13	16.22	10.00	9.71	9.20	9.38
23	Toilet Soap	75gms.	9.75	9.75	9.75	10.13	9.62	9.75	9.75	9.75
24	Washing Soap	225 gms..	16.20	6.35	5.40	5.85	8.10	6.75	16.20	6.75

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl.No	Article	Unit	Jharia	Kodar-ma	RanchiHatia	Bangalore	Belgaum	Hubli Dharwar	Mercara
1	2	3	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
1	Rice	Kg.	11.49	11.70	11.55	16.47	14.50	15.56	11.53
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	10.93	10.09	10.82	15.50	14.11	14.87	13.24
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	12.13	11.84	12.08	15.15	#	#	24.38
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	#	#	#	9.88	9.75	#
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	32.00	32.00	31.83	32.75	30.75	31.30	35.00
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	45.50	48.00	46.17	51.05	38.00	40.00	53.35
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	25.50	26.00	26.83	#	29.50	28.00	#
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	#	#	#	48.49	49.78	50.63	59.71
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	46.41	52.00	51.42	#	#	#	#
9	Vanaspati	Litre	53.00	50.00	51.05	51.25	55.00	54.00	53.50
10	Goat Meat/ Mutton	Kg.	145.00	140.00	134.17	160.00	150.00	147.50	128.75
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	52.50	60.00	57.08	55.13	101.25	50.00	51.25
12	Milk	Litre	18.00	18.00	16.00	13.33	16.00	14.00	13.00
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	#	#	15.00	13.00	16.00	14.00	#
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	160.00	160.00	148.66	163.00	164.00	164.00	#
15	Onion	Kg.	8.10	7.00	7.68	7.73	5.50	6.00	6.81
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	7.00	7.00	14.00	6.48	7.00	8.00	5.74
17	Sugar	Kg.	21.00	22.00	22.00	20.53	18.92	19.71	21.38
18	Gur	Kg.	19.00	18.00	18.67	21.66	21.50	21.00	18.75
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	16.80	16.40	18.00	16.83	17.00	14.50	17.00
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	95.00	65.00	122.50	127.32	116.00	104.00	40.00
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	85.00	120.00	150.00	#	#	#	#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.31	9.50	9.60	21.77	23.16	12.92	9.63
23	Toilet Soap	75gm	9.75	7.20	9.75	9.62	9.75	9.75	9.75
24	Washing Soap	225 gms.	6.75	16.20	4.50	7.39	7.50	4.50	7.60

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl. No	Article	Unit	Mysore	Erna- kulam	Munda-kayam	Quilon	Bhopal	Chhind- wara	Indore	Jabalpur	Mumbai
1	2	3	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47
1	Rice	Kg.	16.65	13.09	13.97	13.53	17.26	10.54	12.43	11.08	18.67
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	16.47	9.26	6.56	6.44	11.99	6.91	15.15	11.13	15.46
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	16.38	19.25	18.67	16.50	13.00	12.00	12.45	11.00	#
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	13.42
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	33.47	34.82	31.33	35.50	32.00	30.00	32.00	32.00	34.46
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	42.00	41.32	44.00	39.94	51.34	46.00	50.00	48.72	50.11
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	31.00	#	30.17	#	29.84	24.00	29.40	24.90	31.18
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	51.42	#	#	71.25	70.67	72.00	49.91	70.00	62.84
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	#	#	#	#	52.33	52.00	44.41	55.00	52.58
9	Vanaspati	Litre	50.13	#	#	#	46.67	48.00	48.95	54.00	57.09
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	141.25	145.00	150.00	170.00	133.33	120.00	125.00	116.00	151.50
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	45.00	61.25	55.50	70.00	106.67	60.00	61.00	68.00	244.66
12	Milk	Litre	13.00	15.00	14.33	16.00	20.00	15.00	16.00	19.00	24.48
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	13.00	15.00	#	15.00	18.00	15.00	14.00	16.00	17.00
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	164.00	175.00	#	#	160.00	144.80	150.00	160.00	150.31
15	Onion	Kg.	14.16	13.63	13.47	12.75	7.42	5.10	5.35	5.90	7.76
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	6.91	6.46	6.67	6.81	7.00	7.00	7.00	6.00	9.00
17	Sugar	Kg.	20.08	19.63	19.51	19.61	21.41	19.95	19.84	21.00	21.56
18	Gur	Kg.	18.19	18.75	18.28	20.75	17.83	15.00	22.00	16.40	29.61
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	17.00	15.00	13.25	15.00	18.80	18.80	18.80	19.20	19.90
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	88.00	90.00	45.33	80.00	96.00	80.00	90.66	88.40	#
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	21.16	22.21	9.52	18.14	9.03	9.63	9.02	8.79	9.06
23	Toilet Soap	75gms.	9.75	9.75	7.20	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75
24	Washing Soap	225 gms..	9.00	7.65	7.65	16.20	15.30	4.50	16.20	16.20	16.20

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl.No	Article	Unit	Nagpur	Nasik	Pune	Sholapur	Angul- Talcher	Rourkela	Pondicherry
1	2	3	48	49	50	51	52	53	54
1	Rice	Kg.	12.26	15.30	17.51	13.39	11.46	13.20	14.92
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	13.81	12.88	16.12	10.74	9.84	#	15.50
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	15.58	14.77	#	14.00	13.00	11.66	19.81
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	9.97	12.55	10.00	#	#	#
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	31.07	32.40	32.23	32.40	32.00	34.00	35.25
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	51.37	49.07	49.92	54.00	44.50	51.00	44.50
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	28.67	28.13	29.67	30.00	32.00	40.00	#
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	52.17	56.42	55.08	50.96	71.00	#	52.21
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	59.47	81.50	#	#	49.14	54.60	#
9	Vanaspati	Litre	54.10	48.08	46.37	53.20	55.00	48.00	51.63
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	140.33	130.00	156.67	140.00	150.00	150.00	170.00
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	71.67	200.00	203.83	72.00	70.00	75.00	250.00
12	Milk	Litre	19.67	22.00	23.00	18.00	16.00	17.00	12.00
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	17.00	17.00	16.00	16.00	#	15.00	12.00
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	127.40	136.50	150.00	#	159.28	#	127.40
15	Onion	Kg.	7.53	6.00	6.72	6.00	8.75	7.88	6.25
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	7.00	13.00	10.90	6.00	7.00	6.75	5.93
17	Sugar	Kg.	20.94	19.95	19.29	18.82	21.93	22.00	19.12
18	Gur	Kg.	25.40	22.93	23.48	20.00	20.50	#	19.75
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	20.00	20.00	14.40	14.40	18.00	16.00	21.00
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	106.00	80.00	155.72	160.00	80.00	80.00	150.00
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	46.00	#	#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.55	9.70	9.25	9.40	9.52	9.11	9.20
23	Toilet Soap	75gms	9.75	13.00	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.10
24	Washing Soap	225 gms.	16.20	7.20	4.50	16.20	15.30	15.30	8.67

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl. No	Article	Unit	Amritsar	Jalandhar	Ludhiana	Ajmer	Bhilwara	Jaipur	Chennai	Coimba-tore	Coonoor	Madurai
1	2	3	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64
1	Rice	Kg.	14.00	12.75	13.00	15.95	15.75	16.76	11.24	10.12	6.73	9.66
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	#	8.91	#	11.80	9.96	11.16	13.40	14.26	12.34	13.48
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	10.75	10.41	11.00	13.00	11.50	12.15	18.33	23.50	22.40	20.00
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	35.50	32.50	34.00	33.00	32.00	34.65	34.05	30.20	30.50	32.48
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	52.53	46.25	49.50	46.75	45.50	44.90	45.92	41.65	42.10	45.65
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	38.98	36.00	36.00	29.75	27.00	29.92	#	#	30.35	#
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	#	#	#	62.50	70.00	70.00	49.37	55.20	54.24	51.95
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	55.00	49.50	58.00	63.00	60.50	54.32	#	#	#	#
9	Vanaspati	Litre	49.00	49.25	45.00	45.50	#	46.50	47.87	#	#	53.20
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	130.00	130.00	140.00	125.00	120.00	120.03	180.00	165.00	160.00	150.00
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	133.00	90.00	70.00	80.00	60.00	#	171.33	158.00	52.00	38.00
12	Milk	Litre	14.00	16.00	17.00	18.00	19.00	21.07	#	14.00	14.50	14.00
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	#	18.00	18.00	16.00	14.00	16.00	13.38	12.50	16.00	14.00
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	170.00	160.00	165.00	160.00	160.00	139.78	134.75	150.15	160.00	163.80
15	Onion	Kg.	8.00	6.81	8.50	8.25	7.50	9.50	7.33	7.00	13.40	11.40
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	12.50	13.00	13.00	12.50	11.50	12.00	9.18	6.50	6.05	4.85
17	Sugar	Kg.	22.00	21.38	22.00	21.25	21.00	21.56	15.93	16.65	17.49	16.44
18	Gur	Kg.	#	#	#	20.00	19.00	21.45	19.83	18.90	#	18.10
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	18.00	18.80	18.80	18.90	18.80	18.63	21.38	22.00	22.50	21.38
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	120.00	110.00	120.00	120.00	85.00	134.78	182.40	114.00	100.00	120.00
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.20	9.10	9.61	10.00	10.00	10.00	8.40	8.40	8.50	8.74
23	Toilet Soap	75gms.	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.41	9.75	9.75	9.25
24	Washing Soap	225 gms..	6.30	5.63	5.85	5.34	5.14	5.37	8.67	15.19	7.70	7.60

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl.No		Article		Unit	Salem	Tiruchirapally	Tripura	Agra	Ghaziabad	Kanpur	Lucknow
1		2		3	65	66	67	68	69	70	71
1		Rice		Kg.	11.15	8.86	10.98	11.93	13.00	17.00	13.99
2		Wheat:
		a. Wheat Whole		Kg.	12.82	13.80	#	9.69	9.50	10.03	10.50
		b. Wheat Atta		Kg.	17.69	18.75	8.77	10.75	11.00	11.17	12.00
3		Jowar		Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
4		Arhar Dal		Kg.	30.90	31.00	#	32.00	34.00	31.71	33.65
5		Moong Dal		Kg.	45.03	44.50	45.93	48.40	56.00	51.29	49.50
6		Masur Dal		Kg.	#	32.00	38.68	28.00	32.00	27.63	27.80
7		Groundnut oil		Litre	48.99	47.97	#	#	#	#	#
8		Mustard Oil		Litre	#	#	53.80	45.00	45.00	46.54	45.05
9		Vanaspati		Litre	#	#	#	50.00	46.00	48.42	50.00
10		Goat Meat/Mutton		Kg.	150.00	160.00	186.20	120.00	140.00	123.75	138.00
11		Fish Fresh		Kg.	195.00	25.00	101.80	60.00	65.00	60.00	70.00
12		Milk		Litre	14.00	14.00	19.40	17.00	18.00	18.00	18.00
13		Dairy Milk		Litre	12.50	14.00	#	17.74	18.00	16.00	16.00
14		Pure Ghee		Litre	#	160.00	#	158.00	150.00	152.00	166.00
15		Onion		Kg.	10.00	7.00	12.03	8.55	7.50	5.79	8.00
16		Chillies Dry		100 gms	6.07	5.90	12.14	13.00	13.50	8.00	12.00
17		Sugar		Kg.	14.44	16.27	14.70	20.94	21.00	20.90	20.67
18		Gur		Kg.	#	21.50	26.46	17.95	20.00	18.21	19.50
19		Tea Leaf		100gms	21.25	21.50	11.64	18.80	18.00	18.80	19.20
20		Fire Wood		40 Kg.	88.00	80.00	55.50	160.00	130.00	160.00	150.00
21		Soft Coke		40 Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	240.00	#
22		Kerosene Oil		Litre	14.03	12.26	9.43	9.75	10.10	9.85	9.98
23		Toilet Soap		75gms	9.19	9.38	6.60	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75
24		Washing Soap		225gms.	7.50	8.67	6.75	15.30	5.00	5.35	16.20
	#		Items do not feature in index basket of respective centres.
	Notes		1. “The prices are average prices based on individual quotations obtained from selected outlets in a given centre and are not comparable between centres as they relate to different varieties of varying specifications”.

Average Monthly Consumer Prices of Selected Articles for Industrial Workers, August, 2006
Sl. No	Article	Unit	Varanasi	Asansol	Darjee- ling	Durga- pur	Haldia	Howrah	Jalpai guri		Kolkata		Rani-ganj	Sili- guri
1	2	3	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79		80		81
1	Rice	Kg.	12.79	14.11	9.76	14.96	13.72	14.18	10.83	14.13		13.84		9.74
2	Wheat:
	a. Wheat Whole	Kg.	11.40	7.83	9.94	6.73	7.86	7.42	7.47	6.73		#		8.71
	b. Wheat Atta	Kg.	12.50	12.80	1.49	11.30	11.16	12.21	1.51	12.48		12.95		2.67
3	Jowar	Kg.	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#		#		#
4	Arhar Dal	Kg.	32.00	34.50	33.75	33.50	32.50	34.00	34.75	34.35		34.25		33.33
5	Moong Dal	Kg.	50.00	52.63	50.00	53.50	55.67	49.42	51.00	51.15		49.00		50.00
6	Masur Dal	Kg.	28.00	37.06	40.00	39.75	39.33	40.00	37.88	40.00		37.83		39.33
7	Groundnut oil	Litre	#	#	#	#	84.00	#	#	#		#		#
8	Mustard Oil	Litre	47.32	48.23	50.51	47.32	49.14	47.55	49.82	47.98		47.93		50.05
9	Vanaspati	Litre	52.00	48.38	51.83	50.00	#	50.46	52.00	51.10		51.42		48.00
10	Goat Meat/Mutton	Kg.	120.00	170.00	123.33	160.00	170.00	164.17	180.00	171.50		150.00		163.33
11	Fish Fresh	Kg.	62.00	97.50	72.50	120.00	116.67	103.33	115.00	116.50		100.00		80.00
12	Milk	Litre	18.00	17.50	17.75	17.00	15.33	17.00	15.00	17.00		16.00		16.00
13	Dairy Milk	Litre	17.00	13.50	#	12.00	14.50	13.10	#	13.50		#		#
14	Pure Ghee	Litre	148.17	144.80	177.38	235.30	235.30	207.50	#	209.06		144.80		#
15	Onion	Kg.	8.50	10.50	10.19	10.25	10.08	10.25	10.00	10.90		10.00		10.00
16	Chillies Dry	100 gms.	13.00	7.50	7.44	12.00	10.00	7.88	8.00	7.93		7.50		6.00
17	Sugar	Kg.	20.84	20.83	21.39	20.95	21.98	20.88	19.48	23.37		21.13		20.69
18	Gur	Kg.	19.80	22.50	24.00	20.00	22.50	23.33	21.50	23.30		21.93		22.00
19	Tea Leaf	100gms	19.20	19.20	14.50	18.00	17.60	18.47	18.80	18.56		18.00		12.00
20	Fire Wood	40 Kg.	160.00	95.00	106.67	80.00	80.00	120.00	60.00	123.00		70.00		100.00
21	Soft Coke	40 Kg.	240.00	97.50	243.33	100.00	160.00	160.00	#	158.00		78.33		#
22	Kerosene Oil	Litre	9.94	9.52	10.00	9.81	9.50	18.98	9.15	19.02		9.97		9.00
23	Toilet Soap	75gms.	9.75	9.75	6.90	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75	9.75		9.62		5.50
24	Washing Soap	225 gms..	16.20	15.30	16.20	15.75	16.20	15.37	15.30	16.20		16.20		15.75
2. Besides these articles, retail prices of a large number of articles (including House Rent) being paid by working class families and utilized in the compilation of CPI Nos. (on base: 2001=100) for industrial workers are not being published due to resource constraint.
3. The price data of the remaining articles for any particular centre can be made available to the users on their specific demand.