Date:02/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/03/02/stories/2006030202801200.htm

Back Govt to release 1 lt more wheat

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New Delhi , March 1

In order to keep the wheat prices in control, the Government has decided that the Food Corporation of India would release one lakh tonnes of wheat under the open market sale scheme as the first instalment in March 2006, said an official release.

While10,000 tonnes of wheat would be released each for Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Tamil Nadu Maharashtra; 5,000 tonnes each for Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, J&K, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Gujarat; 4,000 tonnes for Uttaranchal; and 3,000 tonnes each for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, it added.