All-India CPI-IW for the month of April 2025 – Expected DA/DR from July 2025: The All-India CPI-IW for April, 2025 increased by 0.5 point and stood at 143.5 (one hundred forty three point five).
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT
LABOUR BUREAU
F.No. 5/1/2021-CPI
Shram Bureau Bhawan, Block No. 2,
Institutional Area, Sector 38 (West),
Chandigarh – 160036
Dated: 30.05.2025
Press Release
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) – April, 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 April, 2025 is being released in this press release.
The All-India CPI-IW for April, 2025 increased by 0.5 point and stood at 143.5 (one hundred forty three point five).
Year-on-year inflation for the month of April, 2025 stood at 2.94% as compared to 3.87% in April, 2024.
All-India Group-wise CPI-IW for March, 2025 and April, 2025:
| Sr. No. | Groups | March, 2025 | April, 2025 |
| I | Food & Beverages | 146.2 | 146.5 |
| II | Pan, Supari, Tobacco & Intoxicants | 164.8 | 165.8 |
| III | Clothing & Footwear | 149.4 | 150.4 |
| IV | Housing | 134.6 | 134.6 |
| V | Fuel & Light | 148.5 | 152.4 |
| VI | Miscellaneous | 140.1 | 140.6 |
| General Index | 143.0 | 143.5 |
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