5. Prices and Food Management

Introduction

Inflation

Developments in 2006-07

Consumer Price Index

Updating of the Price Indices

Wholesale Price Index

Consumer Price Index for Urban Non-Manual Employees (CPI-UNME)

Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL)

Real Estate/Housing Price Index

Service Price Indices

Anti-inflationary measures

International prices of select commodities

Commodity profiles

Food management

Procurement of foodgrains

Offtake of foodgrains from the central pool

Buffer Stock

Minimum Support prices

Economic cost of foodgrains

Decentralised procurement scheme

Central issue price

Food subsidy

Outlook