More prices need to be freed: Prime Minister

Unfazed by the criticism over the latest hike in petrol prices by oil companies, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday called for decontrolling prices of “most commodities” except those which are in the nature of “semi-public goods”. Speaking to the Indian media at the G20 Summit here immediately before his departure for Delhi, Singh said the general policy direction was irreversibly for “decontrolling more and more prices”.

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