Arjun ''concerned'' over inflation

Bhopal, Mar 30 (UNI) Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh today expressed concern over spiralling inflation and assured that Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram would soon take solid steps to bring it under control.

''Rise in prices is the biggest contemporary problem,'' he said in response to media queries here.

The Minister alleged that the Centre's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was running smoothly in the country but its pace was ''somewhat slow'' in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and some other states that he would soon visit for reviewing the campaign.

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