AICPIN for Mar 2025 released: Expected DA from July 2025
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT
LABOUR BUREAU
Shram Bureau Bhawan, Block No. 2,
Institutional Area, Sector 38 (West),
Chandigarh – 160036
F.No. 5/1/2021-CPI
Dated: 30.04.2025
Press Release
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) – March, 2025
Labour Bureau, an attached office of the M/o Labour & Employment, has been compiling
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month on the basis of retail prices collected
from 317 markets spread over 88 industrially important centres in the country. The index for the
month of March, 2025 is being released in this press release.
The All-India CPI-IW for March, 2025 increased by 0.2 point and stood at 143.0 (one
hundred forty three).
Year-on-year inflation for the month of March, 2025 stood at 2.95% as compared to 4.20%
in March, 2024.
All-India Group-wise CPI-IW for February, 2025 and March, 2025:
| Sr. No. | Groups | February, 2025 | March, 2025 |
| I | Food & Beverages | 146.8 | 146.2 |
| II | Pan, Supari, Tobacco & Intoxicants | 163.7 | 164.8 |
| III | Clothing & Footwear | 148.4 | 149.4 |
| IV | Housing | 134.6 | 134.6 |
| V | Fuel & Light | 148.5 | 148.5 |
| VI | Miscellaneous | 139.0 | 140.1 |
| General Index | 142.8 | 143.0 |
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