This monthly change was due to the increase of expenditure value of food items by 1.23% and non-food items by 0.04% respectively.
The Year on Year inflation based on NCPI has decreased to 8.4% in April from 8.6% in March, DCS said.
November 23, 2024
The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) in April 2017 has increased up to 121.0 from 119.5 reported for March 2017.
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