Modern retail stores ‘Har-Hith’ will open in the villages of Haryana on October 2.
“As many as 1100 applications have been received for the franchisee of ‘Har-Hith’ stores, out of which 95 per cent applications have been found eligible under the franchisee policy. The scheme to open these stores was launched on August 2,” said Rohit Yadav, Managing Director, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation Limited (HAICL).
He said that 80 percent of the site surveys of the eligible applicants have been made and after the store site survey, the sites which are ready for setting up of shops have been allotted. Others have been asked to make some basic improvements to the site.
He said that from September 1, out of the sites which are ready to be set up for shops 300 sites have been allotted, while the allotment process for the rest of the sites is underway. Along with this, 100 agreements have been made under the franchisee policy of the scheme.
With this, the store’s fitout and interior work will be completed at the earliest by the vendor on behalf of Haryana-Agro within a week, he said.
Yadav said that under the Har-Hith Retail Scheme of HAICL, the application process, site survey and onboarding agreement work is going on these days. For this, district level Har-Hith Retail Franchise onboarding agreement camps are being organized in Gurugram, Hisar and Pipli. Agreements are being made with franchisee partners in these camps that were started from September 9.
2000 ‘Har-Hith’ retail stores will be opened in the first phase and 3000 retail stores in the second phase. Along with consumers in the city, consumers of the villages too will get top FMCG products including bakery, food, homecare, personal care etc from 50 companies of top international, national and regional level at special discount of 5 to 50 percent from time to time at these stores, he said.
He further said that under this scheme, the Haryana government is providing a platform for startups as well as about a dozen Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), FPOs (Farmer Producer Organizations), Government Co-operative Institutions, Self Help Groups (SHGs) to increase their business. High quality products of groups including Khadi, Vita, Hafed will also be made available in Har-Hith stores.
Yadav said that a network of Warehouse and District Centres has been created with the help of Logistic Partners across Haryana to run ‘Har-Hith’ Stores systematically, with the help of which the stock ordered by the franchisee partner will be delivered to them within 24-48 hours for goods worth Rs 10,000 at no extra cost in stores of all districts in Haryana.
These stores are being equipped with a complete IT support system to ensure smooth functioning. All sales will be done through the point of sale system. Complete IT solutions will be provided to the Franchise Partner including Har-Hith POS Machine, ERP Software, Franchisee App, On-call Support Cell etc. Facility of scanning the goods, billing, online payment and stock ordering will be given through the POS machine, he added.