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New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Prices of wheat and rice largely remained steady or declined while sugar continued to decline at most places across India over the week ending Thursday, the government said Friday.
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said this in a statement after studying the prices at centres monitored by the Department of Consumer Affairs.

The ministry said that the “prices of sugar continued to decline at many centres while prices of other commodities generally remained steady.”

According to data released by the Department of Consumer Affairs, prices of wheat remained steady at all the reporting centres except for a decrease at Patna and increase at Rajkot, whereas prices of rice generally remained steady at most centres. The prices fell at Delhi, Rajkot and Mumbai.

“Sugar prices showed decline at Shimla, Lucknow, Raipur, Rajkot, Patna, Kolkata, Vijaywada, Thiruvananthapuram, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Dindigul,” said the statement.

Prices of pulses generally remained steady throughout the country. Decline was noticed in the retail prices of moong and masoor in a large number of centres.

Prices of edible oils were also steady across the country.

“In Delhi, the prices of rice and gram dal decreased during the week, while atta, wheat, urad dal, moong dal, sugar, milk, groundnut oil, mustard oil, vanaspati, potato and onion remained steady. Prices of tur dal registered a slight increase,” added the statement.