Flour will no longer get wet due to inflation, the government is going to take a big step to control the deteriorating budget of the kitchen – center to sell 30 lakh metric tones of wheat to reduce prices

New Delhi: To get relief from inflation, the government is going to take a big step. Expensive flour has spoiled the budget of the people. The government has taken a big step to provide relief in this direction. The government is preparing to sell 30 lakh metric tonnes of wheat. To reduce the rising prices of wheat and flour, the government has decided to sell 30 lakh metric tonnes of wheat under the Open Market Disposal Scheme (OMSS) and sell it to state governments, Kendriya Bhandar, National Consumer Cooperative Federation (NCCF), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED), State Cooperative Societies/Federations etc., so as to bring down the prices of wheat and flour.

Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Friday said that the government takes various steps from time to time to increase domestic availability and control rising food prices. These steps include release from buffer to reduce prices, enforcement of stock limits, monitoring of declared stocks by entities to prevent hoarding and trade policy like rationalization of import duty, change in import quota, ban on export of commodity etc. contains the expected changes in the means of In order to manage the overall food security of the country and to control the rising prices of food grains, the government has revised the export policy of wheat from free to prohibited category on May 13, 2022 and to restrict the export of Indian durum wheat on May 12, 2022. Export of Atta (Wheat) from July, 2022 is subject to the recommendation of the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Export of Wheat.

In order to increase domestic availability of pulses and balance prices, import of Tur and Urad has been kept in free category till 31-03-2024 and import duty on Masoor has been reduced to zero till 31-03-2024. To prevent hoarding and restrictive trade practices with respect to tur, the government issued a directive to all states and union territories to enforce stock disclosure by stockholders of tur under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, and to monitor and verify the stock. Have done Chana and Moong stocks from the Price Support Scheme (PSS) and Price Stabilization Fund (PSF) buffers are continuously released to the market to moderate the prices and are also supplied to the States for welfare schemes.