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Wholesale price index (WPI) inflation softened to 0.13% in September on easing in prices of food articles, fuel and manufactured items, government data showed on Tuesday (October 14, 2025).
WPI-based inflation was 0.52% in August and 1.91% in September last year.
“Positive rate of inflation in September 2025 is primarily due to an increase in prices of the manufacture of food products, other manufacturing, non-food articles, other transport equipment and textiles, etc,” the industry ministry said in a statement.
According to WPI data, deflation in food articles was 5.22% in September, compared to 3.06% in August, with vegetables experiencing a decline in prices.
Deflation in vegetables was 24.41% in September, as against 14.18% in August.
In the case of manufactured products, inflation eased to 2.33%t, against 2.55% in August.
Fuel and power witnessed a negative inflation or deflation of 2.58% in September, against 3.17% in the previous month.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which takes into account retail inflation, had kept benchmark policy rates unchanged at 5.5 per cent earlier this month.
Retail inflation fell to an 8-year low of 1.5% in September, official data released on Monday (October 13, 2025) showed.
Published – October 14, 2025 12:37 pm IST
