New Delhi, Jan 13: The soaring prices of essential commodities will start coming down in 8-10 days, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said Wednesday, adding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had called a meeting of the chief ministers here Jan 27 to discuss the issue.
 “With the measures we have taken, the prices of essential commodities are expected to start coming down in eight to 10 days,” he told reporters here after a meeting of the cabinet committee on prices chaired by Manmohan Singh. 
 Pawar said the prime minister would also discuss the implementation of the Essential Commodities Act with the chief ministers.
 Pawar also said that state governments were not lifting the wheat and rice stocks made available to them by the central government.
 “We have made sizeable allocations of wheat and rice to the states but sufficient ammounts have not been lifted,” he pointed out, adding that of the two million tonnes of wheat that had been allocated, only 159,000 tonnes had been lifted, while only 209,000 tonnes of the one million tonnes of rice that had been allocated had been lifted.
IANS

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