• WPI Inflation: 0.13% YoY (from 0.52% in August 2025)
• Causes: Increase in prices of manufactured food items, non-food items, textiles, and transport equipment

• Launched by: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Gandhinagar, Gujarat
• Objective: Encourage financial empowerment and accountability; ensure citizens retrieve unclaimed funds
• Guiding Principles: 3 A's – Awareness, Accessibility, Action

1. The Retail Inflation in India September 2025.

• Retail inflation: 1.54% (lowest since 8 years; decreased to 2.07% in August 2025)
• Rural inflation: 1.07% | Urban inflation: 2.04%
• Food inflation: -2.28 (fourth month of deflation in a row)
• Inflation in rural food: -2.17% urban inflation: -2.47%
• Rationale: positive base effect, decreased prices of vegetables, fruits, pulses, cereals, edible oils.
• Ministry note: Well-developed supply chains, better crop yields, and controlled distribution relieved the strains on prices.

NEFT -RBI Frequently asked questions| Major Update

• System: National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT).
• Proprietor: Reserve bank of India (RBI)
• Availability: 24/7/365, half hourly settlement batches.
• Covers: Pan-India, all major banks and branches.

• Introduced: 13 October 2021 by PM Narendra Modi
• Experience 4 years PM GatiShakti, the first multimodal integrated infrastructure planning system in India.