Indian Government Fails Miserably in controlling Food Inflation - Food inflation rises to 15.58%
Muhammad Javed Iqbal
PTI 26 November 2009, 01:53pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Inflation
food prices
NEW DELHI: Food inflation rose to 15.58 per cent for the second week
of November from 14.55 per cent in the previous week as potatoes and
pulses
On an annual basis, potato prices more than doubled, pulses became
expensive by over 35 per cent, while onions rose by 27 per cent.
Price rise was significant on weekly basis with urad and poultry
chicken rising by 15 per cent each, eggs by 8 per cent, moong by 6 per
cent, arhar by 5 per cent and fruits & vegetables by 3 per cent.
Among the non-food articles, raw silk turned expensive by 3 per cent,
while fodder and groundnut seed by 2 per cent each.
Fuel index though remained unchanged at the previous week's level.
Satish Kumar
wrote:
> Indian Government Fails Miserably in controlling Food Inflation -
> Food inflation rises to 15.58%
Talking of inflation, what is inflating the casualty rates from
suicide bombing in Pakistan? Aren't all the victims going to compete
with the suicide-bomber in afterlife for time inside the orifices of
72 Houris and 28 pearl like boys?