{"id":2153,"date":"2012-04-23T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2012-04-24T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:48:45","slug":"what-a-rupee-can-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/what-a-rupee-can-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Rupee can Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talk to anyone and you would find them inadvertently\u00a0talking about \u201cInflation\u201d and how the power of rupee is depreciating rapidly. How the household budget is going for a toss with ever increasing prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economic times came out with a nice info graphic showing <strong>What a rupee can buy now and what it used to buy in good old days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Early 1950s:\u00a0<\/strong>A rupee could buy 3.5 Kg of rice or 500 gram of chicken or 0.5 meter of cotton cloths or travel to 50 Kms in a bus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Early 1960s:<\/strong>\u00a0Rice became expensive. Now you could only buy 1 kg rice in a rupee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Early 1970s:\u00a0<\/strong>Bus rides became expensive. In small town you could travel 19 Kms while in Mumbai you could travel 9 Kms. In Mumbai a rupee could buy you two Udupi thalis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Early 1980s:\u00a0<\/strong>A pack of non-filter cigarettes. In Kolkatta the tickets to the cheapest seats in cinema<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Early 1990s:\u00a0<\/strong>A local call from pay phone or get your weight from the weighing machines placed at railway stations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>And now these are the things you can buy in Rs. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Candy<\/li>\n<li>Shampoo \/ Oil sachet<\/li>\n<li>Photocopy<\/li>\n<li>SMS<\/li>\n<li>Sulabh Sauchalaya<\/li>\n<li>Match boxes<\/li>\n<li>And much more\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Enjoy the info graphic below. <\/strong>(Click on the image to enlarge)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2154\" title=\"what a rupee can buy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-1024x615.png\" alt=\"what a rupee can buy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-170x102.png 170w, https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-284x170.png 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tip\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">What did you buy last with the Rs. 1 coin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk to anyone and you would find them inadvertently\u00a0talking about \u201cInflation\u201d and how the power of rupee is depreciating rapidly. How the household budget is going for a toss with ever increasing prices. Economic times came out with a nice info graphic showing What a rupee can buy now and what it used to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[347,840,841,93],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy.png",3105,1867,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-300x180.png",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy.png",768,462,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy-1024x615.png",1024,615,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy.png",1536,924,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy.png",2048,1231,false],"yarpp-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/what-a-rupee-can-buy.png",120,72,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Amit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Talk to anyone and you would find them inadvertently\u00a0talking about \u201cInflation\u201d and how the power of rupee is depreciating rapidly. 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