Governments hold raids on hoarders to bring down price of pulses
Posted on: 31/Oct/2015 12:34:21 PM
State governments in the country held crackdown on hoarders and seized over 1.24 lakh pulses. This resulted in the reduction of toor dal prices in the retail market to less than Rs. 200 per kg. An official statement made by the Consumer Affairs Ministry has said that the prices of toor dal are now Rs. 191 per kg compared to Rs. 200 per kg on Thursday. However, price of urad dal remained unchanged at Rs. 190 per kg.
In Kolkata, toor dal was available at Rs. 160 per kg as compared to Rs. 168 per kg. However, rates remained the same in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. In Delhi the price was Rs. 172 per kg compared to Rs. 173 per kg in Chennai and Mumbai.
The statement said, So far under de-hoarding operations, 10,903 raids have been conducted and 1,24,209 tonnes of pulses have been seized across states... Following concerted efforts made by the government, prices of pulses have continued to show declining trends both in wholesale and retail markets... There has been a decline of more than Rs. 2,400 per quintal in wholesale market in the prices of tur dal and the same is reflected in the retail prices also.
