The trend of rising market prices has continued in November as well. At the same time, the annual point consumer price increase (inflation) reached 6.05 percent last November. It was 4.95 percent in the same month last year.

Last November, the price increase rate of the food and beverage group was 9.99 percent and that of the non-food and service group was 3.92 percent. During the same period last year, the inflation of these groups increased by 5 and 4.92 percent respectively.

In the five months of this financial year, the price of vegetable sub-group under the food and beverage group has increased the most by 43.05 percent, pulses and pulses by 10.66 percent, food and food products by 9.70 percent, and ghee and oil by 9.39 percent. However, during the same period, the price increase of maramsala sub-group decreased by 1.18 percent and sugar and sugar products decreased by 0.83 percent.