All India Consumer Price Index For March 2024. Since the duty increase on 13 september 2024, retail prices (south zone) for palm, soybean, sunflower, and mustard oil surged by about 17 per cent, 2 per cent, 11. In the last hike in march 2024, the central government had raised dearness allowance by 4 per cent to 50 per cent of the basic pay.

The national statistical office (nso), ministry of statistics and programme implementation (mospi) is releasing all india consumer price index (cpi) on base 2012=100 and corresponding consumer food price index (cfpi) for rural (r), urban. The headline cpi inflation dipped to 4.9% in march 2024 (+5.7% in march 2023) on a yoy basis from 5.1% in february 2024 (+6.4% in february 2023), printing slightly above.