UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — PRESS RELEASE OF CONSUMER PRICE INDEX ON BASE 2024=100 FOR MARCH, 2026

Q1. The Consumer Price Index (Rural, Urban and Combined) on base 2024=100 is compiled and released by which one of the following?

  • A. National Statistical Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
  • B. Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • C. Office of the Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
  • D. Reserve Bank of India, Department of Economic and Policy Research

Q2. Under India's flexible inflation targeting framework, which one of the following is the single price index the Central Government uses to set the inflation target for the Reserve Bank of India?

  • A. Consumer Price Index (Combined)
  • B. Wholesale Price Index
  • C. CPI-Industrial Workers
  • D. GDP deflator

Q3. In the CPI 2024=100 series which adopts COICOP-2018, which one of the following constitutes the highest (first) level of the classification hierarchy?

  • A. Divisions
  • B. Groups
  • C. Classes
  • D. Sub-classes

Q4. COICOP-2018, adopted up to the sub-class level in India's CPI 2024 series, is a consumption classification framework maintained by which one of the following?

  • A. United Nations Statistics Division
  • B. International Monetary Fund
  • C. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • D. World Trade Organization

Q5. How many distinct Consumer Price Index series in India are compiled by the Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment?

  • A. Two
  • B. Three
  • C. Four
  • D. Five

Q6. The Expert Group on Comprehensive Updation of the Consumer Price Index, whose recommendations underpin the 2024=100 series, was constituted and its report released by which one of the following?

  • A. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
  • B. Reserve Bank of India
  • C. Ministry of Finance
  • D. Ministry of Labour and Employment