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Government must take strong action to address demand-supply issues: Assocham

17 Aug 2016 Evaluate

After the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation increased for the fourth straight month and shot up to 3.55 per cent in July 2016, industry body, Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (Assocham) has said that the rise in WPI based inflation is in line with the industry’s expectation as it got some upward movements through increase in prices of crude oil and other commodities globally and policy measures introduced by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its bi-monthly policy in April 2016, but it also said that the government must take strong action to address the structural issues of demand and supply within the industry.

Assocham further pointed that WPI figures for July 2016 may give some relief to manufacturers and producers, since earlier it was hampering their pricing power and profitability and limiting their potential to increase capital expenditure. However, the increase in WPI may result in increase in Consumer Price Index (CPI) which may affect the households and final consumers badly. Therefore, policy makers should take concrete steps to minimise the transition of price rise from WPI to CPI.

In its recent comprehensive study on vegetables, the industry body had stated that prices of most of vegetables like potato, cabbage, chilly, tomato, cauliflower, brinjal and okra have seen a price rise between 20 and 100 per cent, hit by low arrivals of the harvest in the mandis during the April-July period of 2016 and what is most worrying is that the trend is visible during the peak season of production

DS Rawat, Secretary General of the Assocham said the prices of products which are of national interest has been continuously rising at industry level are pulses, vegetables, potato, fruits, fibres, food articles and sugar which policy makers should check and address through supply side responses, though it is good that prices of onions have been managed well.

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