<h1>New CPI series updates base year to 2024, widens basket and recalibrates weights to better measure inflation.</h1> India introduced a new Consumer Price Index series with base year 2024=100, expanding coverage to 358 items and 12 classification groups, recalibrating weights using the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023 24, reducing the food and beverages weight to 36.75%, and updating price collection across extensive rural, urban and online markets to provide more contemporaneous inflation signals for policy calibration.