New Delhi, Oct 06: After breaching the 4 per cent barrier for the first time this year, the inflation rate plummeted by 0.45 per cent at 3.58 per cent for the week ended September 21 mainly due to lower prices of vegetables and essential goods. Annual rate of inflation stood at 4.03 per cent during the previous week while Wholesale Price Index declined by 0.1 per cent to 167.6 from 167.8 during the previous week and 161.8 a year ago.

Final WPI for week ended July 27 stood revised at 166.1 as against a provisional figure of 165.8 whereas the inflation rate stood at 3.04 per cent aganist a provisional figure of 2.85 per cent.
Index for Primary Articles declined by 0.4 per cent to 176.7 from 177.4 a week ago and 170.5 a year back mainly due to sharp fall in vegetable prices which declined by (3.3 per cent).

Index for Food Articles declined by 0.3 per cent from 183.3 to 183.8 during the previous week due to lower prices of poultry chicken (6 per cent), fish marine (5 per cent), bajra and maize (4 per cent each) and jowar, arhar, fruits and vegetables and eggs (1 per cent each).
However, prices of tea climbed up (7 per cent), fish inland (4 per cent), masur and urad (2 per cent each) and wheat, barley, ragi and moong (1 per cent each). Bureau Report