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New Delhi - Despite inflation rate falling to an all-time low of 0.44 percent and India risking entering a deflationary phase, the benefits of low inflation are yet to be felt by the common man, market analysts have said.
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According to government data released Thursday, the wholesale price index (WPI), India's most widely watched inflation measure, sank to 0.44 percent for the week ended 7 March, 2009, as compared to 2.43 percent for the previous week and 7.78 percent during the corresponding week of the previous year.
The inflation rate had touched a 13-year high of 12.91 percent last August due to global slump and slowdown in domestic demand.
A close look at the latest data reveals that decrease in prices of primary articles and fuel, power, light and lubricants resulted in the sharp fall in inflation rate.
According to a government statement released by the Finance Ministry, this is the steepest drop since November 2008.
"In the last 30 years, there is no record of inflation falling this low since 1977-78," the statement said.
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