Price stability on agenda, will take more measures: Govt

The government today said high food inflation is adversely affecting the common man and it intends to employ various measures to tackle the situation, including schemes that will facilitate opening up farmers' mandis and mobile bazaars.

Some of the important steps the government intends to implement include schemes enabling state governments to set up farmer's mandis and mobile bazaars, strengthening of the Public Distribution System (PDS) through computerisation and opening more procurement windows across the country, Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply. The government also intends to review the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act to consider exempting horticulture products from its purview, thereby mitigating marketing and distribution bottlenecks, he said.