Covid-19 impact: Govt holds back April CPI citing data collection issues

But it did revise the CPI inflation for March to 5.84 per cent from 5.91 per cent

The Centre on Tuesday released the consumer price index-based inflation (CPI) data only for certain sub-groups, but did not give the general CPI number, citing difficulties in collecting the data due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It, however, revised the CPI inflation for March to 5.84 per cent from 5.91 per cent.
 

However, in the sub-groups for which April data was released, like housing, health, milk and products, cereals, vegetables, fruits and others, there were clear trends of price rise compared to March.
 

The groups and sub-groups for which no data was released include meat and fish, pan, tobacco and intoxicants,