From import bills to dal mills: Government MSP pushing Aatmanirbharta in Pulses

NEW DELHI: India grew 274.09 lakh tonnes of pulses in 2025-26, according to the Third Advance Estimates. That is 17.26 lakh tonnes more than the year before. In the same year, the pulses import bill shrank by nearly a third. These two numbers frame the first year of the Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses. The Union Cabinet cleared the Mission on October 1, 2025. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched it ten days later, on October 11. It carries an outlay of Rs 11,440 crore spread over six years

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