Telangana State was leading in the country in terms of rate of inflation for May with the combined inflation rate of rural and urban areas pegged at 9.45%.
According to the consumer price index numbers (on base 2012=100) for rural, urban and combined released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), inflation in rural areas touched 10.32% during May while it was at 8.65% in urban areas.
The values of consumer price index in Telangana increased to 180.7 in May in Telangana as against 165.1 in the same month last year.
The Ministry said, in a recent release, that the price data was collected from selected 1,114 urban markets and 1,181 villages covering all States/Union Territories through personal visits by staff of Field Operations Division of the National Statistical Office (NSO).
NSO collected prices from 99.8% villages and 98.3% urban markets while the market prices of different commodities reported were 90% for rural and 93.1% for urban.
