Government took steps to control inflation during Rakhi, Dussehra-Diwali, will keep an eye on the prices of ghee-maida, gram flour

The central government has made a big decision to monitor the prices of essential food items during the festive season. The government has decided to monitor the prices of 16 more food items daily. Till now, the prices of only 22 essential items were being monitored.

Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister launched version 4.0 of the Price Monitoring System (PMS) mobile app. Under this, the government will also keep an eye on 16 items like brinjal, millet, ragi, egg, semolina, gram flour, refined flour, ghee, black pepper, coriander, cumin, red chili, turmeric, and banana. For this, the government has set up 550 centers in 34 states of the country. Prices will be monitored from here. Till now the government used to monitor rice, wheat, flour, gram dal, tur dal, peanut oil, mustard oil, vegetable, sugar, tea, salt, potato, onion, milk, lentil, moong dal, urad dal, jaggery, soya oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, tomato.

Launching the 4.0 version of the Price Monitoring System Mobile App, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Prahlad Joshi said, the Consumer Affairs Department of the Government has included 16 additional items under price monitoring from August 1, 2024. There are already 22 items included under daily price monitoring. Now prices of a total of 38 items will be monitored.