2011年10月31日星期一

Supply-side constraints fuelling inflation, says finance minister

Days after the Reserve Bank of India hiked short-term lending rates for 13th time to tame runaway inflation, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee admitted that stubbornness of soaring prices were due to supply-side constraints of farm products. The government has taken steps to ease the situation, which will bear fruits by December this year.

“The inflation pressures are mainly because of supply-side constraints of agricultural products. Necessary steps have already been taken… After some lag, I hope it will have its impact and from November-December. The rate of inflation will moderate,” Mukherjee told reporters on sidelines of a meeting held to launch e-payment system for government expenditure including salaries and pension.

In a related development, food and consumer affairs minister KV Thomas said his ministry will brainstorm with the finance and agriculture ministries to identify those food products that were putting pressure on prices and work out strategies to deal with it in a bid to contain food inflation.

“We are concerned about high inflation. We will sit together (Pranab Mukherjee and Sharad Pawar) and discuss which are the areas causing high inflation and work out what can be done,” Thomas told reporters.100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together.

Mukherjee said the RBI hiked rate at which commercial banks borrow to 8.5 per cent last week to suck out the excess liquidity in the banking system.

“There was some liquidity overhang which was required to be mopped up and through the adjustment of interest rates, efforts have been made to mop it up,” he said.

Since the global financial crisis in 2008, several countries had to come out with stimulus packages to prop up their economies resulting in excess liquidity in the system. India too injected liquidity into the system that were being sucked out by gradually hiking rate to the pre-crisis level.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards,

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Earlier, inaugurating the e-payment system Mukherjee said this initiative is one of the first, security compliant, digital signature based payment system in government that is in keeping with provisions of the Information Technology Act.

Direct transfer of subsidies to the ultimate beneficiaries, users and consumers of fertilizer, kerosene and cooking gas are already a declared objective of the government. “The e-payment and The Government Electronic Payment Gateway will help the payment leg of the proposed system,” he said.

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