New Delhi: Retail inflation moved up to 5.11 percent in January month-on-month, measured on a new base year 2012, mainly due to dearer food items including fruits and vegetables.
In December, retail inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was at 4.28 percent (recalculated with new base year).
The CPI inflation in December was 5 percent with 2010 as base year.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has revised the base year to 2012 from 2010 for computing the consumer price index.
After releasing the new series, Chief Statistician T C A Anant told reporters that "inflation in 2014-15 will be lower than the 2013-14 level".
He further said that besides changes in weight of items and groups, "we have shifted to geometric mean for computing inflation from arithmetic mean used in previous series."
Food inflation in January was 6.13 percent due to costlier fruits, vegetable and cereals.
The rate of price rise in egg contracted by 0.24 percent in January, while the same shot up to 9.38 percent in milk and related products.
The government also released Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) which stood at 6.06 percent on annual basis.
