The SPI in the aforementioned category for the week under review was 321.56 points, compared to 321.95 points for the previous week, according to the PBS statistics.
In comparison with the same week in the previous year, there was an 18.41% increase in the SPI for the combined consumption group during the reviewed week.
Twenty (20) (or 39.22%) of the 51 goods had unchanged prices during the week, while the prices of 7 (13.72%) and 24 (47.06%) items increased.
In Q1, energy costs accounted for 15.80% of the total; bananas (4.87%), diesel (3.81%), petrol (2.23%), wheat flour (0.98%), sugar (0.21%), and cigarettes (0.21%) were among the commodities with the largest weekly price decreases.
Eggs (1.58%), cooked daal (1.05%), cooked beef (0.53%), rice basmati broken (0.44%), garlic (0.43%), onions (0.40%), shirting (0.09%), cooked beef (0.53%), and pulse gramme (0.78%) were the goods with the most weekly price increases.
The commodities that experienced a decline year over year were wheat flour (32.28%), electricity costs for Q1 (15.46%), cooking oil (5 litres; 13.44%), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (9.99%), vegetable ghee 1 kg (9.21%), eggs (7.90%), chilli powder (7.04%), mustard oil (6.80%), rice basmati broken (5.68%), petrol (1.20%), and diesel (0.16%).
In Q1 (570.00%), onions (86.53%), pulse gramme (41.78%), powered milk (32.32%), pulse moong (30.21%), garlic (27.88%), shirting (25.09%), men’s sandal (25.01%), salt powder (23.28%), beef (23.13%), pulse mash (21.22%), and energy saver (17.96%) were among the commodities with rising average prices year over year.
