New Delhi:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is holding a high-level meeting today to tackle spiralling food prices and review food inflation, which has gone past 18 per cent.
Senior ministers including Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahuwalia are attending the meeting.
"In general, all these issues (food prices and allowing export of agri-items) may be discussed in the meeting. I will myself try to raise all these issues because there has to be a collective view," Pawar said on Monday.
Food inflation rose to 18.32 per cent for the week ended December 25, due to rise in prices of vegetables like onion, milk and meat.
Retail price of onion continues to rule high at Rs 55-60 per kg in major parts of the country due to sluggish supply. Producers in India's biggest onion market at Nashik had stopped selling onions on Monday protesting I-T raids on them, a measure to crackdown on hoarding. (With PTI inputs)
Senior ministers including Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahuwalia are attending the meeting.
"In general, all these issues (food prices and allowing export of agri-items) may be discussed in the meeting. I will myself try to raise all these issues because there has to be a collective view," Pawar said on Monday.
Food inflation rose to 18.32 per cent for the week ended December 25, due to rise in prices of vegetables like onion, milk and meat.
Retail price of onion continues to rule high at Rs 55-60 per kg in major parts of the country due to sluggish supply. Producers in India's biggest onion market at Nashik had stopped selling onions on Monday protesting I-T raids on them, a measure to crackdown on hoarding. (With PTI inputs)
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