India’s January consumer price inflation is at 5.11 percent

New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) India’s consumer price index-based inflation (CPI) was at 5.11 percent during January 2015 from 4.28 percent in December 2014, TCA Anant, the government’s chief statistician, said here on Thursday.

The CPI urban for January stood at 4.96 percent and rural at 5.25 percent. January food inflation stood at 6.06 percent.

The data is based on the revised base year. "The Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has revised the Base Year of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 2010 to 2012," an official statement here said.