WPI Inflation Rises to 9.92 Percent in August 2026

The correct answer is 9.92 per cent. That is the provisional year on year wholesale inflation rate announced for August 2026 on the base year 2022-23, and the index for all commodities stood at 110.8 in the same month. Option B is wrong because 9.78 per cent was the rate for July 2026, the month before; since the two figures are close and are printed side by side in the release, candidates who read carelessly often pick the earlier one. Option A is wrong because 8.37 per cent is the inflation rate of the Manufactured Products group alone, not the headline rate for all commodities. Option D is not a figure given in the release at all. A further detail worth carrying into the examination hall is that the final estimate for June 2026 was revised upward from 9.87 per cent to 9.97 per cent, which shows that provisional wholesale numbers are routinely corrected when the response rate improves.

The correct answer is Fuel and Power, which recorded inflation of 22.93 per cent in August 2026. The figure is far above every other group and had itself risen from 20.05 per cent in July 2026, which is why mineral oils containing petroleum products are listed first among the drivers of the month's wholesale inflation. Option A is wrong because Primary Articles recorded 7.76 per cent, and that group actually cooled from 8.52 per cent in the previous month. Option C is wrong because Manufactured Products recorded 8.37 per cent, a slight rise from 8.29 per cent in July. Option D is wrong because All Commodities is not a major group at all but the headline aggregate, and its rate was 9.92 per cent. The group indices are worth memorising alongside the rates: 118.1 for Primary Articles, 108.3 for Fuel and Power, and 108.8 for Manufactured Products.

The correct answer is a weight of 24.99 per cent with inflation of 7.05 per cent. The WPI Food Index is not a major group on its own; it is built by taking Food Articles out of the Primary Articles group and the manufacture of food products out of the Manufactured Products group, and putting them together. Option B is wrong on both counts: 22.93 per cent is the inflation of the Fuel and Power group rather than any weight, and 6.65 per cent was the Food Index rate in July 2026, the previous month. Option C gives the right weight but attaches the headline all commodities rate of 9.92 per cent to it, which belongs to the whole index and not to food alone. Option D invents a weight that does not appear in the release. Note the direction of movement as well, since food inflation in the wholesale series climbed from 6.65 per cent in July to 7.05 per cent in August.