The Minister of State for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman has asserted that the government has taken various measures to contain inflation and is regularly monitoring the situation, as price stability remains high on its agenda.
Sitharaman has further said that to restrain rising food inflation in the country, the government has recently taken steps such as de-listing of fruits and vegetables from Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act, bringing onion and potato under the Essential Commodities Act, fixing minimum export price of $500 per tonne and $450 per tonne on export of onion and potato respectively. Further, an additional 50 lakh tonne of rice has been allocated for distribution towards Below Poverty Line (BPL).
WPI inflation rose to five month high at 6.01% y-o-y in May as against 5.20% in April and 4.58% during the corresponding month of the previous year. The increase in inflation was mainly driven by high prices of food, fuel and manufactured product prices. The inflation in food articles increased by 9.50% y-o-y in May as compared to 8.64% in the previous month, mainly due to high prices of fruits and vegetables.
India has been battling a prolonged spell of high inflation and low growth. Rising inflation has been eroding the investors and business sentiments in the country. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised lending rate three times since September’13 in order to tame price rise through cooling demand. Meanwhile, food inflation is likely to remain elevated in the near term as weak monsoon rains would impact the performance of Indian agriculture sector.
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