New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- India's wholesale inflation based on All India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) number in August is reported at 0.52 per cent (provisional), official data showed Monday.

The wholesale inflation turned positive in August after remaining in the negative in the past two months, largely in line with a marginal jump in retail inflation.

A little wholesale inflation is considered by many economists as healthy as it pushes businesses to manufacture or produce more.

Ministry of Commerce and Industry has attributed the positive rate of wholesale inflation in August primarily to increase in prices of food products, other manufacturing, non-food articles, other non-metallic mineral products and other transport equipment etc.

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