(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) eased to 49.2% year-on-year in March, after a 53.6% rise in February, the statistics department said on Friday.
The NCPI captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month.
The Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), released at the end of each month, eased to 50.3% in March from 50.6% in February, data from the statistics department showed.
(Reporting by Nallur Sethuraman in Bengaluru, editing by John Stonestreet)
