Rate of inflation and food prices are glaringly disproportionate and at the same time farmer is not benefited. Steps to be taken immediately. 1. Fix support price to every crop and also fix maximum retail price, so farmers and consumers are benefited and middlemen exploitation can be curbed.Businessmen/traders may price their industrial products on opportunity price but certainly one can not exploit on food items where poor and middle class spends more than 80% of their earnings on food. 2. By fixing mrp on food grains, middlemen automatically optimises transport cost to fit into MRP. 3. Apna Mandis/Ryot Bazars which were successful in AP and punjab should be reorganised and be encouraged in all states. 4. Politicians should learn statesmanship and stand on principles whether they win or lose and not practice manipulative, hypocratic,oneupmanship politics. 5.Community development programs initiated by Nehru were totally neglected over the years. Earlier the chair used to go to the people and now people go to the chair.
RE:Inflation and food prices
by Shyam on Apr 15, 2008 11:55 AM Permalink
Don't praise the rythu bazaars of AP this time. Now it is full of dalals. It is not rythu bazar but only dalal (broker) bazar these days. The prices are not cheaper here either.
