Monthly pulse · Office of the Economic Adviser, DPIIT
Before prices reach the shop shelf, they move at the wholesale level — and the Wholesale Price Index is where India reads that first. It carries no consumer-style target band; instead it tracks the raw cost of goods across the economy, weighted heavily toward manufactured products, with fuel & power the most volatile piece. Track the headline, then split it into primary articles, fuel, factory goods and food. Numbers are the Economic Adviser's own, to the month.