Bharat Plus: In the last few months, the central government has taken several important decisions to provide relief from inflation. In this context, the government has started selling flour at cheap prices. The government will sell the flour under the Bharat brand. Let’s find out what the lot will cost and where you can buy it.
what is the price
The flour will be available under the ‘Bharat’ brand at an MRP of Rs 27.50 per kg. Currently, most of the branded flour costs more than Rs 40 per kg. In that too Annapurna brand flour is priced up to Rs 60 per kg. If seen from this perspective, consumers will save Rs 13 to Rs 33 per kg of flour.
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Where can you buy?
You can buy ‘Bharat’ brand flour from all physical and mobile outlets of Kendriya Bhandar, NAFED and NCCF. For this, the government will use 800 mobile vans and more than 2000 shops across the country. Government will extend it to other co-operative/retail shops. It means that you will be able to get this lot easily in the coming days. Let us tell you that in the month of February, under the Price Stabilization Fund Scheme, the government conducted a trial sale of 18,000 tonnes of ‘Bharat Atta’ at a price of Rs 29.50 per kg through cooperative societies in some shops. Now it has been officially launched.
Beans are already being sold
Bharat Dal (Channa Dal) is already sold by these 3 agencies from their physical and/or retail outlets for 1 kg pack at Rs. 60 per kg and for 30 kg packs at Rs. 55 per kg is being sold. Onion is also being sold at Rs 25 per kg. Now, with the launch of ‘Bharat’ flour, customers can get flour, pulses and onions at fair and affordable prices from these stores.
Edible oil prices have also come down
In the last few months, the government has taken several steps to control and reduce the price of edible oil in the domestic market. For example, the basic duty on crude palm oil, crude soybean oil and crude sunflower oil has been reduced from 2.5 percent to zero. Additionally, agricultural cess on this oil was reduced from 20 percent to 5 percent. This fee structure has been extended till March 31, 2024. Similarly, basic duty on refined soybean oil and refined sunflower oil has been reduced from 32.5 percent to 17.5 percent and basic duty on refined palm oil has been reduced from 17.5 percent to 12.5 percent. This fee structure has been extended till March 31, 2024.
Apart from this, the government has extended the open import of refined palm oil till further orders to maintain availability. At the same time, the import duty on refined sunflower oil and refined soybean oil has been reduced from 17.5 percent to 12.5 percent.
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