New Delhi, Feb 08: The annual rate of inflation fell by a marginal 0.01 per cent to 6.12 per cent in the week ended January 24, yet continued to reign above the RBI estimates of 4 to 4.5 per cent this fiscal. This fall in inflation is largely due to decline in the prices of food articles including arhar, spices, eggs, fruits and vegetables. It was 6.13 in the previous week and 4.79 per cent in the corresponding period of last year. However, the wholesale price index for all commodities for the week rose by 0.2 per cent to 178.6 from 178.2 for the previous week. During the week prices, index for food articles moved down by 0.2 per cent wheareas the index for non-food articles was up by 0.9 per cent, resulting in the rise of 0.2 per cent in the index for primary articles to 182.9. In the food articles group, prices of arhar declined by 3 per cent, condiments and spices (2 per cent) and eggs, fruits and vegetables (one per cent each). However, the prices of maize and bajra moved up by 3 per cent, poultry chicken (2 per cent) and moong, jowar, barley and ragi (one per cent each). In the non-food articles group, prices of raw cotton and sunflower were up by 3 per cent, soyabean (2 per cent) and raw rubber, tobacco, rape and mustard seed and niger seed (1 per cent). However, the prices of copra (2 per cent) declined. The index for fuel, power, light and lubricants remained unchanged at its previous week's level of 262.2 whereas the index for manufactured product rose by 0.3 per cent to 158.4. The index for food products group inched up by 0.3 per cent to 166.8 due to higher prices of gur and gingelly oil (4 per cent each), solvent extracted groundnut oil, groundnut oil and oil cakes (2 per cent each) and rice bran oil and sunflower oil (1 per cent each. However, the prices of ghee declined by a per cent. Lower prices of scented chewing tobacco (one per cent) pulled the index for beverages, tobacco and tobacco products down by 0.1 per cent to 205. While the index for rubber and plastic products' group declined by 0.7 per cent to 133.3, the indices for chemical and chemical products and non-metallic mineral products rose by 0.2 per cent each. The final wholesale price index for the week ended November 29 has been revised at 176.7 points against the provisional estimate of 176.3. The inflation rate based on the final WPI stood at 5.49 per cent against 5.25 estimated earlier. Bureau Report