New Delhi, 5 November (H.S.):

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) & Index of Industrial Production plays a critical role in economic policy and financial market by reflecting inflationary trends across rural, urban, and combined

sectors and industrial growth in the country. The CPI & IIP is currently released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on the 12th of each month at 5:30 PM, (the next working day if the 12th falls on a holiday of CPI) and Previous working day if 12th

falls on a holiday in case of IIP).

To provide more time on the day of release to access CPI & IIP data, the Ministry will release the data one and half hour before the present time frame.

The new release time aligns with the closing hours of major financial

markets in India, ensuring that CPI data dissemination does not interfere with active trading. This adjustment also adheres to MoSPI's commitment to transparency and accessibility in data dissemination.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Nimish kumar