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Andhra Pradesh
HYDERABAD, FEB. 22.Arrangements are being made by the Government to ground the Sarvapriya scheme in the third of week of March and commence full-scale paddy and rice procurement for rabi on April 1. As an experiment, two fair price shops, one each in Nizamabad and Chittoor districts, have begun selling the listed 18 open-market consumer items on no-profit-no-loss base as intended by Sarvapriya. The results were "very good". The Government finalised modalities for implementing the project after an opinion-eliciting exercise at a State-level meeting here on Friday chaired by the Civil Supplies Minister, K. Sivaprasada Rao. Joint Collectors, who will be incharges of the scheme, and officials from the Civil Supplies Corporation, the Markfed, the Oilfed and representatives from rice-mills and fair price shops attended. The finalised form of the scheme provides for making available the listed manufactured goods like soaps, talcum powder, coconut oil and kitchen items such as sona masoori rice, wholesome wheat, ravva, maida and sugar, all in kg packets, and at uniform price. The scheme will be introduced at some select fair price shops initially and extended later. According to the Minister, who addressed the meeting along with the Civil Supplies Commissioner, the Director, S. P. Singh and G. Nageswara Rao, and the Corporation MD, V. Manohar Prasad, no subsidy will be involved in the scheme. The prices will be decided by a State-level committee or district committees "on consignment basis", and depending on the situation. The items are to be purchased by the specified shop through DDs and post-dated cheques. A sticker indicating the logo will be compulsorily affixed on each item sold. The Minister said the scheme was primarily aimed at helping low income groups but it would be open to all as an open market. The meeting at which C. S. Ramalakshmi, Special Commissioner for Rural Development incharge of DWCRA, and the State advisor on prices, J. Satyanarayana, were present, also decided to bring DWCRA products under the Sarvapriya coverage. The meeting also finalised action programme for procurement operations for rabi, setting 35 lakh tonnes of rice and 46 lakhs tonnes of paddy as targets. It noted that the results of the kharif procurement were "excellent" with "almost all" the quantity purchased at the designated centres fetching MSP and the payment made to "some of it" going beyond MSP. Dr Sivaprasada Rao asked the officials to take steps that the farmers avoided traditional varieties like parboiled rice for which there was no market at present in the country. He wanted them to clear the payments within 48 hours of the paddy being lifted. Regarding cotton, he said, following the Government talks with the CCI chief recently, the CCI had agreed to bear the cost of transport and loading/unloading.
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