This was mainly driven by monthly increase of prices of items in Non-food category along with the statistical effect of the low base prevailed in July 2019.
Food inflation (Y-o-Y) increased to 10.9% in July 2020 from 10.0% in June 2020. Further, Non-food inflation (Y-o-Y) also increased marginally to 1.5% in July 2020 from 1.4% in June 2020.
The change in the CCPI measured on an annual average basis also increased marginally to 4.8% in July 2020 from 4.7% in June 2020.
Monthly change of CCPI recorded at 0.1% was mainly due to net effect of price changes observed in the items of the Non-food category. Within the Nonfood category, prices of items in Health (payments to private hospitals/ nursing homes) sub-category increased during the month.