Inflation rises to 4.75%

Spiraling prices of vegetables, non-food items and manufactured products pushed up inflation to 4.75 per cent for week ended October 29 from 4.49 per cent in the previous week.

The WPI was up 0.3 per cent at 198.3 in the week under review from 197.7

points in the previous week.

The government revised upwards the inflation figure to 3.64 per cent for the week ended September 3 from a provisional figure of 3.16 per cent, and the WPI stood corrected at 196.6 points as against the earlier estimate of 195.7 points.