| 5.
Prices and Food Management |
| |
| Introduction |
| Inflation |
| Developments
in 2004-05 so far |
| Consumer
Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-W) |
| Updating
the indices |
| Ant-inflationary
measures |
| Commodity
profiles |
| Food
management |
| Procurement
of foodgrains |
| Offtake
of foodgrains from the central pool |
| Buffer
Stock |
| Minimum
Support prices |
| Economic
cost of foodgrains to FCI |
| Decentralised
procurement scheme |
| Central
issue price |
| Food
subsidy |
| Outlook |