 "People queue up to purchase onions at subsidised rates at Krishi Bhawan. Prices have soared over the past month PTI")
The consumer will have to live with high onion prices for the time being due to scarcity in the market, and the ineffectiveness of the several measures taken by the government to address the situation. Yesterday, Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs, Ram Vilas Paswan, warned that he would impose stock limit on the vegebtable.
The series of measures taken in phases by the central government during the past 10 days follows a sharp increase in onion prices in the past one month, from Rs 13 a kg in the beginning of August to a three-year-high of Rs 40
