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Question
State the uses of cost of Living Index Number
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Solution
Uses of Cost of Living Index Number:
(i) It indicates whether the real wages of workers are rising or falling for a given time.
(ii) It is used by the administrators for regulating dearness allowance or grant of bonus to the workers.
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