Fair Price Shop Dealers Demand Monthly Income, Threatens Mass Agitation

Fair Price Shop sellers, who performed an important position in delivering foodgrains to the needy throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, have threatened a mass agitation if their calls for should not met. The All India Fair Price Shop Dealers Federation representatives met Union Minister of Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal the place they pressed for his or her calls for together with the reinstation of PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana in addition to a minimal month-to-month honorarium to make sure secure livelihood. Speaking to Zee News Digital, Biswambhar Basu, nationwide common secretary of the AIFPSDF mentioned that Goyal assured to resolve the problems as quickly as doable. 

“Our dealers will meet Member of Parliament of their areas and urge them to raise our demands in Parliament. On July 25, we will hold a convention in Talkatora Stadium in Delhi where leaders of political parties will also be invited. We will ask them for cooperation and if any party refuses to help us, we will campaign against the party in the next election from our shops. We will support a party which makes our demand part of their 2024 election manifesto,” mentioned Basu.

Basu additional mentioned that round 5 lakh truthful worth store sellers will collect in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan in January to take out a ‘historic rally’ to ‘gherao Parliament’ if their calls for stay unfulfilled. 

“We are suffering losses. We have demanded the government to provide us a minimum monthly honorarium of Rs 50,000. We have also urged the government to increase our commission and honorarium to make FPS viable,” mentioned Basu.

At current, the FPS sellers get Rs 90 per quintal of grains. They additionally managed to make some meagre cash by promoting the empty jute sacks, knowledgeable Basu. The affiliation mentioned in an announcement that Goyal directed the officers to put off the upkeep of any register for FPS as all of the work has gone paperless. The affiliation has additionally demanded the federal government permit them to promote non-PDS objects like edible oil, pulses, sugar, atta and so on from their counters. It mentioned that Goyal assured Mudra loans for the FPS sellers.

The affiliation mentioned that the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) agreed to signal a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote pulses, edible oil and different important objects of every day use from the Fair Price Shops. The affiliation additionally mentioned that if their calls for should not met, they are going to transfer to the Supreme Court as properly.