Producer Price Index by Industry: Construction Machinery Manufacturing: Parts for Cranes, Draglines, and Shovels (Including Surface Mining Equipment) (Sold Separately) Producer Price Index by Commodity for Machinery and Equipment: Construction Wheel and Crawler Tractors, Dozers, Self-Propelled Log Skidders, Etc. In India, the most important category in the consumer price index is Food and beverages (45.86 percent of total weight), of which Cereals and products (9.67 percent), Milk and products (6.61 percent), Vegetables (6.04 percent), Prepared meals, snacks, sweets, etc. (5.55 percent), Meat and fish (3.61 percent), and Oils and fats (3.56 percent). As recorded history goes, Wholesale Price Indices for India have been published from the period of the Second World War. The first Economic Adviser to the Government of India in pre-Independence India, Sir Theodore E.G. Gregory (period 1937-1946) had started the ‘quick’ series, using the week ended August 19 1939 as base, and computed the Index from the week commencing January 10, 1942.