Blaming hoarders for soaring food prices, Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Tuesday that the Centre will not tolerate such practices and unreasonable prices will be checked at the earliest.Talking to newspersons in Raipur this evening Mr. Paswan said, strategies would be chalked out to check hoarding and black marketing during a meeting of food ministers of various states in Delhi on July 4.He said,there is no shortage of onion and sugar in the country.The country has huge stocks of wheat and rice for a year. The Central government will not tolerate hoarding.Meanwhile, the Ministere informed that state governments which have not implemented the Food Security Act would be given three months to introduce it in their respective regions.He said,the deadline for implementing the National Food Security Act is July, but the government has extended the deadline by three months.Earlier, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh had demanded approval of funds to construct warehouses of at least 15 lakh metric tonne capacity, to ensure safe storage of paddy in the state, during a meeting with Paswan.
News On AIR | July 2, 2014 2:02 PM
Strategies to be chalked out to check hoarding says Food minister Paswan