New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
If India wants 8% growth, private investment will have to substantially pick up, Ranade explains. But that can happen only if demand improves, which is contingent on wages increasing.
The highlight of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 is that the share of rural households' expenditure on cereals has fallen below 10% for the first time.
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 puts the average MPCE in rural India has been Rs. 3,773 and in urban India has been Rs. 6,459.
Other key findings include spending on food falls in expenditure of rural households in 11 years. Report made after survey of 2.76 lakh-plus households across country.
Data in light of Advance GDP Estimates presents mixed picture of sales of passenger vehicles, improvement in indices capturing primary, capital & intermediate goods production.
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Highlighting Andhra Pradesh’s rapidly growing export strength, Centre informed Parliament that the share of marine product exports through Vizag Port jumped from 29.67% in March 2024 to 50.87% in March 2025.
It is reliably learnt that Airbus, which had initially offered its A400M, is likely to sit it out since its aircraft outweighs requirements with payload capacity of 37 tonnes.
It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.
Have they changed the weightage given to food because I think even in rural areas it has gone below 50. People should understand that this is very important otherwise we will have a very conservative RBI so I appreciate this.
Have they changed the weightage given to food because I think even in rural areas it has gone below 50. People should understand that this is very important otherwise we will have a very conservative RBI so I appreciate this.