Economics
Big Mac Index Inspires India to Track Cost of Plate Meals
- Finding shows plate meals cost more in 2019 as veggies sizzled
- Plate meal prices increase for the first time since 2016
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The cost of an Indian plate meal went up in recent months amid a rise in prices of vegetables and pulses.
That’s the first increase in prices since 2016 for the ‘thali,’ a set meal served in a plate across restaurants in India, Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the government’s chief economic adviser, wrote in the Economic Survey.