In an attempt to reign in spiraling prices of pulses the State Government has fixed stock limit for pulses. This was stated by State food and civil supplies Minister Vijay Shah here on Tuesday while addressing a meeting of the pulses growers and businessmen.
Talking to representatives of the Madhya Pradesh Pulse Industry Mahasangh as well as grain merchants, the minister said the State Government has taken stringent measures to arrest uptrend in pulses and the recent measures taken by the Government in terms of drive against hoarders and fixing stock limit for pulses have brought down prices of majority of pulses in the State.
Reiterating the Government's unflinching commitments to protect the interest of the poor and common people in the State, Shah said the state government apparently concerned over steep rise in prices of pulses recently has taken several initiatives including fixing stock limit for the traders and it is showing positive results in terms of bringing down prices of pulses. He asked traders and businessmen to exhaust existing stock of pulses with them and provide it to the common people at reasonable rate.
The minister said that keeping in view the unprecedented rise in prices of tur, moong, urad, masur and other pulse seeds recently, the state Government in its ruling on October 17 this month, put into effect the stock limit conditions on traders, accordingly a stock limit of 2,000 quintals has been fixed for whole-sale traders of A category cities. Similarly a stock limit of 1,000 quintals has been fixed for B category cities and towns, while a stock limit of 500 quintals has been fixed for the remaining category traders. For the retail traders, stock limits of 50 quintals and 40 quintals has been fixed for A and B categories cities, the minister added. In addition to this, the whole-sale pulses businessmen will essentially have to maintain daily stock register, mandi receipts of the sale and purchase.