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Fair price shop for implementation of fundamental rights related to food security: Minister Bhandari
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Industry, Commerce and Supply Minister Damodar Bhandari has said that since food security and sovereignty are placed as fundamental rights in the constitution, the government is working on its implementation.
Minister Bhandari while addressing the opening program of Supath Price Shop which started at the premises of Food Management and Trade Company in Thapathali on the occasion of Vijayadashami, Nepal Samvat, Shubh Diwali and Chhath said that the faster the provisions made in the constitution are implemented, the better the governance will be.
On the occasion of the festival, Minister Bhandari informed in the program that concession shops have been opened in 74 places in the country from Thursday. On the occasion of the Constitution Day, the government has launched the Supath Price Shop.Minister Bhandari said, 'Artificial scarcity of food items, cartelization should not be heard, the company should have a strong presence in all 753 local levels, propose a program for this, money accumulated in financial institutions can be borrowed to work according to the proposal.' He emphasized that food sovereignty should be ensured so that Nepalese can eat three meals a day.
Gobind Bahadur Karki, Secretary of Commerce of the Ministry, informed that provisions for daily life food have been arranged at the concession shop. Consumer rights activists Jyoti Baniyan and Madhav Timalsina and others have noticed problems in price, quality and balance in the market, and emphasized that this should be extended to all local levels as there is no such problem in the fair price shops run by the company.
Consumer rights activists were also insisting that reasonable price shops should be opened from 8 am to 8 pm. In the event, with the support of the World Food Program, a device to upgrade the nutritional content of rice was established. Minister Bhandari also launched the device from today are.
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