20 Feb 2024| 07:01am ISTFair price shop dealers to boycott today's meeting due to short noticeTeam HeraldPANJIM: The fair price shop dealers/owners and consumer activists have decided not to attend the meeting convened by the Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs to discuss the formulation of a scheme for fair price shop dealers. In July last year, the government had constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Secretary (Civil Supplies) Sanjit Rodrigues, IAS, to formulate a scheme for the fair price shop dealers of the State to make the business financially viable for the dealers. The committee is studying the functioning of the fair price shop dealers and difficulties faced by them so that the running of fair price shops business becomes viable for them. "Fair price shop dealers are slogging day and night to serve the ration to Goans with satisfaction of one and all, with some decent salary. I request the concerned authority to look into the matter of fair price shop dealers and do the needful as quickly as possible," De Souza said.

Source: The Herald February 19, 2024 20:50 UTC