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Shipments by obstruction rake to Lucknow and Varanasi volition beryllium scheduled successful the adjacent fewer days.
AMID rising bulb prices, the Centre has decided to transport the bulb by bid from Nashik to Delhi and different parts of the country.
Addressing a property conference, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said the Railways arsenic a mode of bulb proscription is acceptable to summation value arsenic much destinations are being added to bolster the gait of disposal. Shipments by obstruction rake to Lucknow and Varanasi volition beryllium scheduled successful the adjacent fewer days, she said.
In a connection the Department of Consumer Affairs said 1,600 tonnes (approximately 53 trucks) of onions procured by National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India Ltd (NCCF), nether the terms stabilisation fund, is being shipped by ‘Kanda Express’ (special bid for transporting onions) from Nashik to Delhi-NCR.
The peculiar rake departed from Maharashtra’s Lasalgaon railway presumption connected Thursday evening and volition scope Delhi’s Kishanganj railway presumption connected October 20, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare.
“It is for the archetypal clip that bulk transport of onions by obstruction rake has been adopted nether terms stabilization intervention… the stocks volition beryllium released successful Delhi-NCR which volition substantially summation the availability to consumers during this festive season,” the connection said. The section has besides requested the Railways to let proscription of bulb rakes from Nashik to aggregate locations crossed the northeastern region, including New Jalpaiguri, Dibrugarh, New Tinsukia and Changsari. This volition guarantee wider availability of onions successful antithetic regions of India astatine a precise tenable price.
According to the statement, the authorities had procured 4.7 lakh tonnes of rabi bulb for the terms stabilisation buffer this twelvemonth and started the merchandise from September 5, 2024 done retail merchantability astatine Rs 35 per kg and besides done bulk income successful large mandis crossed the country. Till date, astir 92,000 MT of onions successful the buffer person been dispatched from Nashik and different root centres to consuming centres done trucks by roadworthy transport, the connection said.
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