Modi in Delhi today to attend panel meeting on food prices
April 07, 2010
Modi in Delhi today to attend panel meeting on food prices
By our correspondent,
Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat, 7 April, 2010
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is in Delhi today to attend a meeting of the core group of Chief Ministers and Union Ministers called by Prime minister Manmohan Singh to discuss measures to arrest food inflation, which is still hovering over 16%.
The core committee includes chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, West Bengal, Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia would represent the Centre.
The group was set up on on February 6 after the prime minister had called a chief ministers’ meeting to tackle the price rise.
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