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Nation's annual food inflation rose to 17.65 percent for the week ended April 10 from 17.22 percent a week ago as prices of milk, fruits and lentils went up during the period under review, official data showed on Thursday.

Food inflation is coming down, with sugar and vegetable prices falling and other indicators remaining stable, cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar said today.

Food inflation rose marginally to 16.34 percent for the week ended 20th March from the four-month-low 16.22 percent the week beofre, according to official figures released on Thursday.

Driven primarily by higher food prices, nation's annual rate of inflation, based on the wholesale prices index, went up marginally to 9.9 percent in March from 9.89 percent a month ago, official data showed Thursday.

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said that inflation would come down in the next two to three months because of declining food prices and ruled out that food inflation would spill over to non-food items.

Nation's annual food inflation dropped marginally to 17.22 percent for the week ended April 3 from 17.7 percent a week before even as prices of milk, fruits and lentils rose during the period under review, data showed Thursday.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that prices of foodgrains are expected to come down after the rabi harvest, blaming the inflation on the supply bottleneck.

For April, 20.02 lakh tonnes sugar has been released, which is adequate to meet the internal demand of sugar for the month," the ministry statement said.