Experts to advise if free food comes under CPI
Hindustan Times Gurugram|January 01, 2025
The government wants to know whether free food distributed to nearly 800 million beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act 2013 should be kept out of inflation calculation,
Zia Haq

NEW DELHI: as it is in the process of creating a new, updated consumer price index (CPI), the gauge that measures changes in retail prices.

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation has put out a discussion paper, seeking views from experts on how to "treat" free ration under the public distribution system or PDS, which comprises a network of 500,000 fair-price shops.

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