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