The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation remained in negative territory for the sixteenth straight month in February at (-) 0.91 per cent against (-) 0.90 per cent in January.
Manufactured products inflation, which has a weightage of 65 per cent, grew 0.3 per cent. Food articles inflation was down 3.2 per cent in February.
Meanwhile, the overall WPI for December 2015 has been revised to (-) 1.06 per cent from a level of (-) 0.73 per cent announced earlier.
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