PM identifies six priority areas for next fiscal

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has identified food and fertiliser subsidies, user charges, the horticulture mission and the accelerated power development and reform programme as priority issues for the coming fiscal.

Officials told Business Standard that the prime minister would review these issues on February 8. They said discussions would focus on keeping food and fertiliser subsidies at Rs 26,000 crore and Rs 16,000 crore, respectively.