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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

KMF partially rolls back cost of curd, lassi, buttermilk

The State government, which faced flak from the Opposition for passing on to the customers the 5 % GST on curd, lassi, and buttermilk on Monday, partially rolled back the hike by the end of the day.

A day after Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), a farmers’ cooperative controlled by the government for fixing of prices, announced a new price for the three pre -packaged Nandini brand products, it rolled it back partially citing interest of the public.

While the KMF had increased the cost for a litre of curd from ₹43 to ₹46 as the new GST rate came into force on Monday, the federation announced the revised price of ₹ 45 per litre by end of day. The cost of a 200 ml sachet, which was increased from ₹10 to ₹12 will now cost ₹10.50.

Similarly, the cost of 200 ml pre-packed butter milk in a sachet that had been increased by ₹1 has been reduced by 50 paise, and will now cost ₹7.50 instead of a hiked price of ₹8.

While the federation has retained the hiked price for lassi in certain packaging, it has reduced the hike on lassi sold in sachets from ₹1 to 50 paise, and the 200 ml lassi sachets cost ₹ 10.50.

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