Rs 3300 Fine Also Imposed for Violation of Essential Commodities Act 1955, people hailed action by Director FCS & CA Sheikh Tariq
Reyaz Rashid
Baramulla, April 16: Continuing its drive to act against erring traders for skyrocketing rates of commodities and to maintain the supply and stock position of essential commodities in the wake of holy month of Ramadan, Department of Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Baramulla under the supervision of Assistant Director Shiekh Tariq on Saturday launched an intensified market checking across the district during which 05 mutton shops and 08 chicken shops were sealed for violating several legal rules and regulations.
Also an amount of Rs 3300 was imposed as fine on several shopkeepers who were involved in the violation of Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
Accordingly, a checking squad was constituted as per the directions of Deputy Commissioner Baramulla Bhupinder Kumar who carried out inspection of shopkeepers and other traders at several locations of the district. The checking squad had yesterday sealed 15 chicken shops for Violation of norms thereby sealing 28 mutton/chicken shops in two days.
Meanwhile, the Assistant Director FCS & CA Sheikh Tariq has warned all the traders and other shopkeepers to abide by the requisite rules and regulations and display rate lists at their trading ventures. He said that any kind of laxity won’t be tolerated in the larger public interest adding that strict legal action shall be taken against the violators of govt notified norms and regulations.
Talking to SNS Kashmir, Sheikh Tariq said that In order to enforce Govt notified rates for mutton/Chicken & other essential commodities during the holy month of Ramzan, the
enforcement squad of Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs continued the process of market
checking in different markets of District Baramulla.
“During the inspection, 05 mutton shops (Main Town Baramulla, Hamray,Tapper Payeen, Buchoo & Tragpora one each) were sealed. Also 03 Chicken
dealers (Baramulla Town) & 05 Chicken retailers (03 at Tapper Pattan, 02 at Narvaw area) were sealed for violating Govt notified rates,” he said.
He informed that since yesterday
total 28 Chicken/mutton dealers/retailers were seized.
During the inspection, the mutton/Chicken dealers/retailers were again warned to strictly follow the Govt approved nutton rates (Rs.535/KG without offai& Rs.490/1KG with 100 grams offai and Chicken dealers were strictly to adhere the Govt approved rates (Rs.125/Kg for Boiler, Rs.70/KG for Layer, and Rs.110/KG for Parent). Further an amount of Rs.3300.00 (Thirty Three Hundred only) has been collected as fine from (15) erring shopkeepers for violation of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
Further, other shopkeepers were informed/advised to display the rate list on the conspicuous place of their shops and restrain from overcharging and in
case of failure, action as warranted under relevant law shall be taken against the erring shopkeepers, he maintained.
The habitual offenders are warned to desist from theovercharging and action as per provisions of Essential Commodities Act, 1955shall be initiated against the erring vendors without any further notice.
It is worth here to mention that, govt has fixed the of mutton as Rs 535/kg without offal and Rs 490/kg with 100 grams of offal. Similarly, Rs 125 was fixed for 1 kg of boiler chicken, Rs 79/kg for layer chicken and Rs 110/kg for parent chicken.
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