New Delhi The food ministry will seek approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for offering subsidy on wheat exports to ease storage in choked warehouses, and approach the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) to allocate additional grains through ration shops.

“It was felt that since offering subsidy on exports from the government reserves is a larger and more sensitive issue, which also involves funds, the proposal should go to the CCEA even though the EGoM on food is headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee,”