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    Is the CSO wrong about inflation in cereals?

    For the cereals group, wholesale prices are up 15.46 percent year-on-year. In the consumer price index, cereals prices are up 16.12 percent. The difference is that cereals have a weight of 9.67 percent in the CPI and 2.82 percent in the WPI 

    Manas Chakravarty
    February 15, 2023 / 08:52 IST
    the sooner the CSO comes out with a clarification about the discrepancy between the bottom-up inflation yardstick and the headline cereals inflation number, the better. Representative image. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File Photo - D1BETTMEIYAA
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