New Delhi, Oct 29: Dal prices are expected to cool down further in the coming days as state governments will release over 98,000 tonnes of seized pulses in the open market from next week.
Retail prices of tur have fallen in metros and other cities like Bengaluru, Mysore, Mengaluru, Puducherry, Cuttack, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Kanpur.
In metros, tur dal was today selling at Rs 173-188 per kg and urad at Rs 140-160 per kg in retail markets, much below the peak of Rs 200-210 per kg last week, as per the data maintained by the Consumer Affairs Ministry.
Meanwhile, the daily monitoring of the price situation continued on Wednesday with Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha reviewing the evolving scenario.
Nearly 15,000 tonnes of pulses have been seized on October 28, taking the total quantity of pulses seized to ov er 98,000 tones
