Prices of cooking oil have more than doubled in one year.

It is shocking to note that, the prices of cooking oil have more than doubled in the last one year. Food Secretary, Sudhanshu Pandey has said that, the prices of edible oil has increased by 62%. The rise in retail price of edible oils — mustard, vanaspati, soya, palm, sunflower and groundnut — is a blow to millions of poorer households in the country that have been financially hit during the second Covid-19 wave. The prices of diesel and petrol have reached a record high, fuelling all round price rise. 

[ Source : Economic Times dt. 17-06-2021]