MUMBAI: Ten tonnes of fresh vegetables are ready for distribution at special government stalls across Mumbai and Thane. Cooperative stores have made space for this special consignment as well. However, the state-sponsored subsidy on vegetables and fruits has been deferred because chief minister Prithviraj Chavan wishes to inaugurate it personally and is unable to make time Monday.
Since three months, retail cartels have been charging customers four times the wholesale rate for food items. To counter this, the state government last week promised to open 100 temporary stalls to sell fresh farm produce from APMC at prices 30% lower than market rates.
The first ten centres were to start functioning Monday. "The CM had announced the scheme personally and although he would like to inaugurate it Monday, he is touring Karad and will return in the evening. The agriculture ministry is trying to schedule the opening soon," said a spokesperson from his office.
APMC director Sanjay Pansare, who is coordinating the food scheme, gave a similar timeline for different reasons. "Around 4,000 large crates required for distribution will arrive on Monday or Tuesday. The scheme will definitely begin by Wednesday." In an interesting coincidence, the festival of Ramzan is expected to begin that day. The instant the Maharashtra government announced it would supply cheap vegetables to bring down skyrocketing food prices, TOI had questioned if this rare intervention was an election gimmick.
That it is indeed so has been proved even before the scheme gets off the ground. In Maharashtra, the Lok Sabha and assembly elections usually take place within a few months of each other. With the next set of polls coming up end-2013 or early 2014, every drop seems to count. Recently, the inauguration of the Eastern Freeway was held up for the CM's appointment as well. On Sunday evening, Congress MLA Baba Siddiqui was negotiating with APMC director Pansare to operate a similar scheme in his constituency of Bandra.
Meanwhile, Anil Gangar, chairman of Apna Bazar that will host eight such stalls said that the one at Andheri may open informally. Initially APMC will despatch one tonne of food to each of the ten centres. "This will include 500 kg of mixed vegetables, 200 kg potato and 200 kg onion. We will gauge the requirement and then regulate the consignment in days to come," Pansare said.
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