date:Jul 20, 2012
According to Food Minister K V Thomas, the government is closely evaluating the price rise every day and is in discussion with state governments.
By imposing stock holding limits, the government will be able to prevent traders from holding excess stocks. Earlier, the government had lifted the restrictions on holding limits in response to surplus production, reported the Economic Times.
Currently, the government is not worried about prices of food grains and sugar due to the surplus production, b