Kerala reports lowest inflation rate in India

The upscale LuLu Hypermarket located in the Lulu International Shopping Mall in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala, India, on May 25, 2022. Kerala reported the lowest inflation rate in all of India at 5.08 per cent. Tamil Nadu reported the second-lowest inflation rate at 5.37 per cent. The national average CPI inflation for April 2022 has shot up to 7.79 per cent. Kerala's inflation rate has been lower than all other states, as well as the national average since the beginning of the pandemic but Tamil Nadu's inflation dipped below the national average since January 2022.