The Food Safety and Standards Act, (FSSA) 2006 is detrimental to small and retail traders and hence the Central government should scrap the FSSA immediately to safeguard the interests of traders, T. Vellaiyan, president of Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangangalin Peravai said here at a programme organised by Traders Association, Tirunelveli.
Tamil Nadu has got every right to enjoy the privilege of getting water from the Cauvery but Karnataka government has been denying it. Despite the Supreme Court’s intervention in the Cauvery River water issue, Karnataka government failed to obey the ruling, he said while addressing the media.
Most of the traders had extended support to the bandh in Tamil Nadu against the Karnataka government’s move to construct dam across the Cauvery. Such a move would not only affect farmers but the entire State. Besides, he said State-level traders’ conference is scheduled to be held in Thanjavur on May 5 and appealed to all traders to take part.
