A data released by Government on April 15, 2019, showed the wholesale price-based inflation stood at 3.18 per cent for the month of March, 2019 against March 2018. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation was 2.93 per cent in February and was at 2.74 per cent in March 2018. The spike in WPI inflation comes on the back of costlier food and fuel products. Vegetables inflation came at 28.13 per cent in March, increased from 6.82 per cent in the month of February. That said, the inflation in ‘Fuel and power; category rose to 5.41 per cent from 2.23 per cent in February.