Inflation breaks downward journey

Prices of certain manufactured items, too, under the rubber and plastic products, machinery and machine tools and transport equipment and parts categories rose marginally. The overall index for this group, however, declined marginally largely due to a fall in the prices of items under food products, textiles, paper products, chemicals and non-metallic mineral products. The fuel group didn8217;t see any movement in its index.

The department of economic affairs in the finance ministry issued a statement soon after the data was released highlighting that thought the inflation had climbed slightly over last week, it was still much lower compared to the 12.91 per cent level it had reached in August.