MoSPI data show food inflation jumping to 7.74 percent, pushing headline CPI inflation well above August's 4.83 percent.

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• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released provisional September 2026 CPI data on 12 October, showing retail inflation at 5.54 percent.
• Headline inflation rose from 4.83 percent in August, an increase of 71 basis points.
• Food inflation, measured by the Consumer Food Price Index, jumped to 7.74 percent from 5.97 percent in August.
• Rural inflation stood at 6.08 percent, higher than urban inflation of 4.88 percent.
• Rural food inflation was 8.06 percent, while urban food inflation was 7.18 percent.
• Onion recorded the highest inflation among the listed key items at 108.09 percent, while potato saw deflation of 11.50 percent.
• Restaurants and accommodation services recorded inflation of 9.36 percent.
• The all-India combined CPI index rose to 109.49 in September from 108.74 in August.
• The series is based on the new base year of 2024=100.
• The September figures are provisional, and the response rate was 100 percent in both rural and urban markets.
• CPI readings serve as inputs for RBI's monetary policy under the flexible inflation targeting framework, and the RBI raised the repo rate to 5.50 percent on 7 October.
• October CPI data will be released on 12 November 2026, or the next working day.

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