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The Labour Bureau revises the base year of the Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers to 2019 equals 100. The new series replaces the old 1986-87 base year series. The index for Agricultural Labourers and the index for Rural Labourers stand at 134 points each for the month of June 2025. The year-on-year inflation rate stands at 1.42 percent for Agricultural Labourers and 1.73 percent for Rural Labourers for June 2025. The revised series covers 34 States and Union Territories, uses 787 sample villages, and includes approximately 150 to 200 items.
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Ministry of Labour & Employment
Posted On: 18 JUL 2025 7:25PM by PIB Delhi
The Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour & Employment has revised the base year of the Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers (CPI – AL & RL) to 2019=100. The newly constructed CPI – AL & RL series (Base: 2019=100) replaces the CPI – AL/RL (Base: 1986-87=100) series.
The revised series has significantly enhanced the scope and coverage and incorporated many methodological changes in order to make the indices more robust. These are: the weighting diagrams (share of expenditure to total expenditure) have been revised due to changes in consumption patterns; use of the Geometric Mean (GM) in place of the Arithmetic Mean (AM), as GM moderates the volatility in prices; use of the latest classification of individual consumption according to purpose, in line with the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP)-2018; calculation of prices of PDS items using the admissibility concept instead of availability as in the old series; the revised series covers 34 States/UTs as against 20 States in the old series; prices are collected from 787 sample villages as against 600 villages in the old series; and ~150–200 items are covered as against ~65–106 items in the old series.
The average annual inflation rates based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for AL/RL (Base: 2019=100) have been moderate as compared to the old series (Base: 1987=100).
The Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL) and Rural Labourers (CPI-RL), with base year 2019=100, for the month of June 2025 stands at 134 points each. The year-on-year inflation rates for June 2025 based on the CPI – AL and CPI - RL stand at 1.42% and 1.73% respectively.
A detailed note on the base revision exercise may be accessed on the official website of the Labour Bureau: https://www.labourbureau.gov.in/.
Manish Gautam/Divyanshu Kumar
(Release ID: 2145905)
