The government will open 189 more Amma Mini Cooperative Supermarkets in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced in the State Assembly on Friday.
Over 300 non-controlled products are being sold at 5% lesser than MRP in the existing Amma Mini Cooperative Supermarkets. These supermarkets are aimed at providing quality products to consumers at a reasonable price and to control the price of commodities in the open market.
In a suo motu statement in the House, Mr. Palaniswami announced that 3,501 mobile ration shops would be opened across the State at a cost of ₹9.66 crore. New buildings for cooperative credit societies would be built at ₹27.74 crore.
The Chief Minister announced that warehousing facilities with a capacity of 1 lakh tonnes would be built with technical support from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, at a cost of ₹100 crore. He said buildings would be built in 50 locations for Direct Purchase Centres for procuring paddy from farmers at a cost of ₹70 crore.
About ₹225 crore would be earmarked for building warehouses with a capacity of 75,000 tonnes for procuring paddy from farmers in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Pudukkottai and Cuddalore districts.
