Food inflation asserted its gradient for the fourth in line week, mounting to 15.46% for the week closed on September 11 as intense rains and inundation troubled supplies of necessary items.

Value of cereals, a number of vegetables and milk inclined sharply throughout the week however the analysts are confident of the condition soothing once rains draw back and the index dilapidated to a solitary digit by December.

Week next to week, food inflation scaled 0.36 percentage points from 15% on September 4. Even though there were a few signs of temperance in July that hang about on during the initial half of August, inflation commenced to augment in the anon half. Several parts of the nation counting Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Assam and Rajasthan have been inundated that has disturbed the supplies.

On an yearly basis, cereal prices increased by 6.75% geared up largely by superior prices of pulses, rice and wheat. Even as the prices of pulses inclined b 4%, wheat and rice became costlier by 9.21% and 5.52%, respectively.

Among other food items, milk prices soared 23.41% during the week compared to the same period last year and fruits by 10.33%. Vegetables also turned costlier by 6.84% on an yearly basis, while potato and onions turn out to be economical by 48.56% and 1.97%, in that order.