To provide onions and potatoes at wholesale rate to people, the Delhi Government on Monday decided to sell vegetables through Fair Price Shops (FPS). The State Government also decided to sell onions on the “no profit – no loss” basis through Mother Dairy (Safal) outlets in the city.
“The Food and Supplies Department has been ordered to step up the efforts for sale of onions and potatoes at the wholesale rates through Fair Price Shops. More than 288 FPS have already been identified for this purpose and more are to follow. The vegetables to be sold at wholesale prices will be made available by the Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board,” an official said.
Onions and potatoes would also be sold through 380 Safal outlets in Delhi for the next three months.
“This will reduce the prices at the outlets. An awareness campaign will also be launched to make people aware about the rates in Delhi as well as the rates at which they are being sold at Safal outlets, at the FPS and through the mobile vans,” an official said.
The decisions were taken at a high-level meeting to review measures to control the prices of essential commodities in Delhi. The meeting was chaired by Dr. M.M. Kutty, Principal Secretary (Finance), and was attended by Divisional Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary (Revenue), Commissioner (Industries), Commissioner (Development), PWD Secretary, Transport Commissioner and Commissioner (Food & Supplies) apart from senior officers from civic bodies and the Delhi Jal Board.
