Pulses prices rising: Urad, Tur relief coming soon to your state - know rates you will get here

In a bid to moderate the retail prices of pulses and provide relief to consumers, the central government on Sunday has decided to provide pulses to the state and Union Territories (UTs) at a fixed rate. Earlier, the Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) had introduced a mechanism to supply the pulses to states and UTs, in bulk or in retail packs, at offer price of MSP+l0.6 from the buffer stock maintained by the central government. In order to make the retail intervention more impactful, the offer price of pulses for retail intervention has been modified to the Minimum Support Price (MSP) or the Dynamic Reserve Price (DRP), whichever is lower. 

Accordingly, Dhuli Urad is being offered to states and UTs for retail intervention at Rs 79 per kilogram for K-18, stock of Kharif-2018, and Rs 81 per kg for K-19. Similarly, Tur will be offered for retail intervention at Rs 85 per kg. GOI has made this offer to States/UTs to lift the stocks in bulk and /or in retail packs of 500gram and one kilogram, depending on the requirement. The retail packs are being provided for retailing fair price shops of PDS and other marketing/retail outlets of the state government, such as dairy and horticulture outlets, consumer corporation society etc. 

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These steps have been taken to regulate the rising prices of Tur and Urad and to augment their supply, keeping in mind welfare of the consumers.