India, Oct. 23 -- The Union government on Thursday unveiled a new series for the consumer price index for industrial workers (CPI-IW), a measure of inflation used to calculate dearness allowance for government employees, wages for industrial workers, and dearness relief for pensioners. The new series will account for changing spending habits of the working class in the organised sector. In the new series, the base year for calculating the CPI-IW has been revised to 2016 from 2001. The new series has been necessitated by changing consumption habits, relative prices of various commodities as well as spending patterns of the country's workforce in regular jobs.P11...