India’s annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), for September 2019, stood at 0.33 per cent over September 2018. The index for textiles dipped 0.3 per cent while for apparel it rose 1.9 per cent in September, according to the provisional data released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The official WPI for all commodities (Base: 2011-12 = 100) for the month of September 2019 declined by 0.1 per cent to 121.3 from the previous month’s level of 121.4, the data showed.

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