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India Flour Rates: of your kitchen during the festive season Budget is also going to increase because the Central Government is preparing to increase the prices of cheap flour, rice and pulses. Food items are being provided at concessional rates by the Central Government. The government cabinet has discussed increasing their prices and now soon they will be sold at increased prices.
This may be a bad news for the common people that this time flour, rice, pulses will all be sold at increased prices in India. Their sale will start in a week. However, people will have to pay more for this.
The price of 10 kg flour will increase from Rs 275 to Rs 300.
The price of 10 kg rice will increase from Rs 295 to Rs 320.
The price of 1 kg chana dal will increase from Rs 60 to Rs 70 per kg.
According to Hindu Business Line, this time the rate of Bharat Dal (peanuts) can be kept at Rs 107 per kg and Bharat Dal (lentils) can be included in the list of cheap food products this time. For this, the rate of Rs 89 per 10 grams can be fixed.
In February, the central government started selling rice in packs of 5 kg and 10 kg at the rate of Rs 29 per kg. Bharat flour sales were launched in November 2023 at Rs 275 per 10 kg bag. However, their sale was banned in June.
According to government sources, the government actually wants to distribute the maximum quantity of rice currently kept in stock. On one hand, the government does not want to spend much on rice subsidy, while on the other hand, it also wants to improve the large supply of rice kept in stock. Along with this, new government procurement has also started for the marketing year 2024-25. This will put pressure on warehouses to vacate over the next six months to make space for storage of the new crop of paddy and wheat.
The government has already started selling rice through weekly e-auction, due to which more than one lakh tonnes of rice has been sold or lifted in this financial year. In this way, efforts are being made to maintain the increased stock of rice.