Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Milk prices are likely to go up again in Maharashtra as the state government is considering coming out with a an ordinance to fix the minimum support price (MSP) for milk from base-point suppliers at Rs 20 per litre.
Following this, people in Mumbai might have to brace for an increase in price of tea since sellers might pass on the hike in milk prices to them.
The Maharashtra government would take a strict action against the milk procurement centres which pay the milk producers at less than the prescribed rate, dairy development minister Eknath Khadse had said yesterday.
Criminal cases would be filed against the procurement centres which pay less than Rs 20 a litre, he added.
The excess milk collected by the co-operative milk federations will be checked for quality and then procured by the centres, he further said.
