Family budget survey to mitigate the impact of inflation on working-class households

The Labour section volition motorboat a household fund survey successful 2025-26 to accurately measure the outgo of surviving of households of cultivation and concern workers successful Kerala. 

Labour Minister V. Sivankutty said the survey volition supply a database for revising the State’s user terms scale based connected the year-on-year ostentation rate. 

The survey would supply the authorities with an close database to timely revise the basal wage of concern and cultivation workers, ensuring a cost-of-living accommodation to basal wages to mitigate the interaction of ostentation connected working-class people. 

Mr. Sivankutty announced the constitution of a 21-member Consumer Price Index Revision Committee, comprising workers’ representatives, employees, officials, and fiscal experts, to show the upcoming household fund survey. 

The survey would illustration 7,920 working-class families successful the State. The authorities has recruited 21 enumerators done the Employment Exchange for the survey. 

The authorities has trained them successful marketplace survey, including enumerating the existent terms of groceries and provisions. Mr. Sivankutty volition inaugurate the programme astatine the Thycaud PWD Rest House on October 16. Antony Raju, MLA, volition preside implicit the function.