AICPIN for March 2025: Expected DA from July 2025

AICPIN for March 2025: Expected DA from July 2025

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT

LABOUR BUREAU

F.No. 5/1/2021-CPI Dated: 30.04.2025

Shram Bureau Bhawan, Block No. 2,

Institutional Area, Sector 38 (West),

Chandigarh – 160036

Press Release

Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016=100) – March, 2025

1. Labour Bureau, an attached office of the M/o Labour & Employment, has been compiling Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month on the basis of retail prices collected from 317 markets spread over 88 industrially important centres in the country. The index for the month of March, 2025 is being released in this press release.

2. The All-India CPI-IW for March, 2025 increased by 0.2 point and stood at 143.0 (one hundred forty three).

3. Year-on-year inflation for the month of March, 2025 stood at 2.95% as compared to 4.20% in March, 2024.