Essential Food Price Watch

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The Price Monitoring Division of the Department of Consumer Affairs tracks retail and wholesale prices of the following 38 essential commodities from 574 monitoring  centres across India -

  1. Rice
  2. Wheat
  3. Atta (Wheat)
  4. Gram Dal(Bharat Dal Adjusted), Gram Dal
  5. Tur / Arhar Dal
  6. Urad Dal
  7. Moong Dal
  8. Masoor Dal
  9. Sugar
  10. Milk 
  11. Groundnut Oil 
  12. Mustard Oil 
  13. Vanaspati 
  14. Soya Oil 
  15. Sunflower Oil
  16. Palm Oil 
  17. Gur
  18. Tea Loose
  19. Salt (Iodised)
  20. Potato
  21. Onion
  22. Tomato
  23. Bajra (whole)
  24. Jowar (whole)
  25. Maida (wheat)
  26. Ragi (whole)
  27. Suji (whole)
  28. Besan
  29. Desi Ghee
  30. Butter (Pasteurised)
  31. Eggs
  32. Brinjal
  33. Black Pepper (whole)
  34. Coriander (whole)
  35. Cummin Seed (whole)
  36. Red Chillies (whole)
  37. Turmeric (powder)
  38. Banana
The Food Commodity Price Dashboard, created by IndiaSpend.com, monitors daily retail prices of 22 key food commodities across States & UTs of India and presents it through charts for easy understanding.


IndiaSpend automatically fetches and processes the latest available data each evening, allowing users to visualize and analyze food price trends by commodity and by state. 

The dashboard makes it easy for journalists, researchers, policymakers, and the public to monitor changes in food prices and understand trends at both state and national levels. 

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