Liquidate excess grain stocks to tame inflation, says CACP chief

In recent weeks, two views have formed in public debate: economists, including Ashok Gulati of the Commission on Agricultral Costs and Prices, have fretted about the Bill's understated costs, while others have preferred to focus on the social ...

A new working paper titled Rising Farm Wages in India ? The Pull and Push Factors, written by Ashok Gulati, Surbhi Jain and Nidhi Satija of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Ministry of Agriculture, goes a long way in busting ...

(Reading Eagle - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Born Ashok Kumar Gulati on Sept. 20, 1942, in Gujranwala, India. Son of Jagjit Lal and Leela Wanti Gulati. Arrived in U.S. June 30, 1958. Married to the former Rosemary Murphy ...

Ashok Gulati, the chairman of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP), has blamed the current food management policy for a paradox of high cereal inflation and bulging food stocks in government godowns. This, he said is being done by ...

Two-year-old IT services startup floated by former Mindtree co-founder Ashok Soota, Happiest Minds Technologies has closed its first full financial year 2012-13 with annualized run rate of $20 million, as per a statement. Focusing on disruptive ...

Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds, said, "We are off to a great start and our current annualized run rate has set a new benchmark for the IT services industry in its first full financial year. Our unique message of 'Happiness' is ...

KidoZen, the leading enterprise mobile-first platform as a service and Happiest Minds Technologies, a next generation IT Solutions & Services Company, today announced a strategic alliance to offer enterprise mobile solutions and services to ...

Here are some more important questions that need to be answered before the right to food security can move from being just a Bill to an Act. 1. The current plan is to sell subsidised wheat and rice to nearly two thirds of India's population through ...

* Costs will be more than $23-24 bln food ministry estimate * Government should cut export price of wheat by $20/T * More than 40 pct subsidised grain does not reach poor * Should replace current system with one based on cash By Jo Winterbottom and ...