The Ministry of Food has given this information. These institutions agreed to mark the wheat flour as ‘Bharat Atta’ or ‘any other suitable name’ with a maximum retail price of Rs 29.50 per kg, he said in a statement.
To relieve consumers of rising wheat flour prices, Kendriya Bhandar has started selling wheat flour at a rate of Rs 29.50 per kg from Thursday, while cooperatives Nafed and NCCF will sell flour at the same price nationwide from February 6. . . The Ministry of Food has given this information. These institutions agreed to mark the wheat flour as ‘Bharat Atta’ or ‘any other suitable name’ with a maximum retail price of Rs 29.50 per kg, he said in a statement.
This was affirmed at a review meeting chaired by Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra on Thursday on the progress of selling 30 lakh tons of wheat from reserve stocks under the Open Market Selling Scheme (OMSS) in the internal market. The ministry said: “The Kendriya Bhandar has started selling flour at Rs 29.50 per kg from today.” However, NCCF and NAFED will supply flour at Rs 29.50 per kg from 6 February. that.
About three lakh tons of wheat are offered to these institutions without electronic auction under OMSS to convert the grain into flour and sell it at Rs 29.50 per kg. Of which one lakh tons have been allocated to Kendriya Bhandar and NAFED respectively while 50,000 tons have been allocated to NCCF. Representatives of Food Corporation of India (FCI), Kendriya Bhandar, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumer Federation Limited (NCCF) were present at the meeting. The prices of wheat and wheat flour in the country have increased in recent months due to the fall in national production.
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