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Retail Inflation for November surged to a 15-month high at 4.88%, breaching the 4% target set by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), from 3.58% in November, government data showed on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Industrial production growth slowed to 2.2% in October as compared to 4.2% a year ago. So, what does that mean for you? Read on. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the data on which we can tabulate the top five most and least expensive states. The data shows that top 5 most expensive states in November were (at No. 1) Jammu and Kashmir (2) Kerala, (3) Tamil Nadu, (4) Andhra Pradesh and (5) Assam. The least expensive, (in effect the cheapest) states in November were Rajasthan, Gujarat, Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh (cheapest of them all).
The annual inflation rate for Jammu and Kashmir in November was highest at 8.61 percent. The final rate was achieved by combining rural and urban inflation rates. -
The state of Kerala had inflation rate of high 8.1 percent in November.
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Tamil Nadu had a high inflation rate of 7.56 in November.
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The Inflation rate in November for Andhra Pradesh was 5.79 percent.
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The inlation rate for Assam in November was 5.8 percent.
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Rajasthan also had low inflation rate in November with 3.96 percent.
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Gujarat had low inflation rate of 3.47 in November.
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Odisha had low inflation rate in November with 3.47 percent
Bihar has inflation rate of 3.35 percent in previous month. -
The least expensive state is Uttar Pradesh with the annual inflation rate of 3.21 percent in November.

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