Government to release new series of retail inflation, GDP data from February, IIP from May next year

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation connected Monday (December 22, 2025) said that it volition merchandise a caller bid of macroeconomic information with a changed basal twelvemonth for retail ostentation arsenic good arsenic nationalist accounts successful February and for concern accumulation successful May adjacent year.

The Ministry volition clasp a pre-release consultative store connected the basal revision of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Index (CPI), and Index of Industrial Production (IIP) connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025), said an authoritative statement.

A caller bid of CPI (Consumer Price Index-based inflation) information with a basal twelvemonth of 2024 (2024=100) is scheduled to beryllium released connected February 12, 2026.

The information connected National Accounts with fiscal twelvemonth 2022-23 arsenic basal twelvemonth is scheduled to beryllium released connected February 27, 2026, portion the caller bid of IIP information with basal twelvemonth 2022-23 volition beryllium released connected May 28.

Tuesday’s (December 23) pre-release consultative store follows the archetypal 1 conducted connected November 26 successful Mumbai.

The superior nonsubjective of the store is to stock the projected methodological and structural changes successful the ongoing basal revision of GDP, CPI, and IIP to question feedback and comments from the participants.

The store brings unneurotic a wide spectrum of participants, including eminent economists, experts from fiscal institutions and the banking sector, taxable substance specialists, users of halfway statistics, and elder officials from Central and State Governments.

The information of this divers radical is expected to enrich the discussions and familiarise users with the changes successful the revised series.

The store volition beryllium attended by Suman K Bery, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog, arsenic the main guest, on with V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor, Saurabh Garg, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI), and N.K. Santoshi, Director General (Central Statistics), MoSPI.