MONEY AND BANKING-The Not-So-Slack Season

and chemical products (3.9 per cent), basic metals alloys and metal products (8 per cent) and machinery and transport equipment (4.6 per cent).
The all-India. consumer price index for industrial workers (I960 = 100) also recorded a sharp increase of 10.4 per cent in the first six months of 1983-84 against an increase of 7 per cent last year, on a point-to-point basis. The rise in September 1983 was more than four times that in September