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Govt asks states to remove local taxes on essential food items

25 Jul 2016 Evaluate
Concerned over the rising inflation, the government has asked the states to remove all kinds of local taxes that are levied on essential food items like pulses and edible oils. The move is aimed at ensuring there is adequate availability of pulses, edible oils and other essential food items, and that they are priced reasonably.

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has written a letter to Chief Secretaries of the States and has asked to take up the market intervention on a real time basis and to review Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Acts on priority to delist pulses and other essential food items so that farmers can sell their produce at any place of their choice, minimising stages of supply chain from farm gate to ultimate consumers. This will provide reasonable prices for consumers and also fetch better prices for farmers.

Consumer Affairs Secretary Hem Pande has invited the attention of States towards the action plan adopted for this purpose in the States Food Ministers meeting held in May earlier this year and requested them to consider a pricing policy for pulses and such other essential food items under the Section 3(2) (c) of the Essential Commodities (EC) Act and to make it enforceable for all the stake holders to cap the prices of essential commodities.

Besides, in order to enhance availability and check prices of essential, the Secretary has also asked the states to implement the Price Stabilisation Fund Scheme for market intervention. For successful functioning of the scheme, adequate and timely lifting of pulses from buffer stock is a pre-requisite besides strengthening storage facilities for pulses, vegetables edible oils seeds, Onions.

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