June 2006 Indian Economy Statistics

The official Wholesale Price Index for ‘All Commodities’ (Base: 1993-94 = 100) for the week ended 10th June 2006 rose by 0.5 percent to 203.0 (Provisional) from 201.9 (Provisional) for the previous week. The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point-to-point basis, stood at 5.24 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 10/06/2006 (over 11/06/2005) as against 4.72 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 03/06/2006) and 4.50 percent during the corresponding week (ended 11/06/2005) of the previous year.

VARIABLES	LATEST FIGURES AVAILABLE
Annual Rate of Inflation	5.24 (week ended on June-10)
Bank Rate	6.00 (Percent per annum.)
Cash Reserve Ratio	5.00 (Percent per annum.)
Deposit Rates.
a) 30 days and one year	2.25-6.00 (As on April 9,2006.)
b) 1 year and above	6.00-7.00 (As on April 9,2006.)
Prime lending Rate	10.25-10.75 (As on April 9,2006.)
Money stock measures (RS in crores)
a) M 1	8,51,776 (As on April 9, 2006)
b) M3	27,55,005 (As on April 9, 2006)
Value of imports	12,561 (As on April 9,2006) (US $ Million)
Value of exports	8,347(As on April 9,2006) (US $ Million)
Balance of Trade	-4,214 (As on April 9,2006) (US $ Million)
Foreign currency Assets	1,53,589 (As on April 9,2006) (US $ Million)

• The index for the primary articles rose by 0.2 percent to 202.7 (Provisional) from 202.2 (Provisional) for the previous week.
• The index for fuel, power, light and the lubricants rose by 1.7 percent to 326.0 (Provisional) from 320.4 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of petrol (9%), high-speed diesel oil and light diesel oil (7% each) and bitumen (3%). However, the prices of naphtha (2%), furnace oil (1%) declined.
• The index for the manufacturing products rose by 0.2 percent to 175.6 (Provisional) from 175.3 (Provisional) for the previous week.