KATHMANDU: The year-on-year consumer price inflation stood at 4.05 per cent in the fourth month of 2020-21 (mid-November) compared to 5.76 per cent a year ago.

Food and beverage inflation stood at 5.73 per cent whereas non-food and service inflation stood at 2.75 per cent in the review month, according to a Macroeconomic Update report unveiled by Nepal Rastra Bank on Monday. T

he price of vegetables subgroup rose 20.88 per cent and pulses and legumes sub-group rose 13.70 per cent on year-on-year basis.

In the review month, inflation at Kathmandu valley stood at 3.39 per cent, 4.69 per cent in Tarai, 3.64 per cent in the hills and 4.32 per cent in the mountains.

These regions had witnessed 6.50 per cent, 6.04 per cent, 4.56 per cent and 4.01 per cent inflation, respectively a year ago, as per the central bank report.