Pushing inflation away from the verge of negative inflation for the week ended April 11, the annual inflation - measured by wholesale price index - rose to 0.26 percent from the earlier week's 0.18 percent. For the same week, the year before figures stood at 7.95 percent. 

With costlier food items and textile goods pushing inflation, official wholesale price index for 'all commodities' for the same weekly period went up 0.3 percent to 228.8 from the week-before figures of 228.2.

Specifically speaking for some of the broad groups, the `primary articles' group index jumped 0.5 percent; the 'non-food articles' group index increased 0.8 percent; the `manufactured products' group index leaped 0.2 percent; the 'textiles' group index rose 0.3 percent; while the `fuel, power, light & lubricants' group index remained unchanged.

The aspect that is of key concern for the policy makers, especially with elections round the corner, is the increase in prices food products, which have leaped by a substantial 25 percent over the week - while vegetables prices have gone up by 2.6 percent; fruit prices jumped 0.8 percent; and prices of cereals increased 0.3 percent.
Talking about the increases in price indexes, D K Joshi, Principal Economist at ratings agency CRISIL said: "The prices of essential commodities are not showing any signs of easing, common man will continue to experience inflation."