The Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (Supplyco) will open 14 mobile Maveli Stores in the State in the next fiscal, Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Anoop Jacob has said.
Speaking after inaugurating a Supplyco supermarket at Panamaram here on Saturday, Mr. Jacob said that the mobile Maveli Stores would be stationed in high range and backward regions of the State. The government had been actively intervening in the market to stabilise the prices of essential commodities and 13 such commodities were being distributed at a subsided price through Supplyco outlets. Measures had been initiated to convert those Maveli Stores that had a turnover of Rs.10 lakh a month to supermarkets. As many as 30 Maveli Stores would be converted into supermarkets in the initial phase,
Such a move would help ensure better services to the public, the Minister added.
Mr. Jacob said that when the Supplyco had started paddy procurement by providing minimum supportive price, there were 40,000 farmers registered under the scheme and now their number had increased to 1.72 lakh.
