The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (Nafed) questions the AAP government where has profit margin on 25 lakh kg onion gone, hints at bungling.
It's really a tear-jerking tale. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
government's claim that it purchases onions at Rs 40 a kg and sells
these to you at Rs 30 a kg has turned out to be a farce. The AAP
government, which came to power on the promise of eradicating corruption
has procured onions at a much cheaper price of Rs 18 a kg and sold
these to Delhiites at Rs 30 a kg, according to RTI replies.
The
move, the RTI replies state, is in stark contrast to the Cabinet
decision that the government will sell onions at a no-profit-no-loss
basis in the Capital. The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing
Federation of India Limited (Nafed) has alleged that there is a huge
difference between the procurement cost and the price at which the AAP
government sold onions to Delhiites.
"There is a huge profit margin in the onion sale. The Delhi government
did not supply adequate quantity of onions to the market. Had it had
done that the prices could have come down. The AAP government must
reveal where the profit margin has gone," said Ashok Thakur, director,
Nafed. He pointed out that the Delhi government had earlier refused to
purchase onions even though Nafed wrote to it repeatedly. This, he said,
led to hoarding of onions and prices went excessively high.
The Delhi government, however, ruled out any financial bungling on its
part. "If there is any irregularity, it is on part of the central
government agencies like Small Farmer Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC)
and Nafed. The actual procurement cost is Rs 32.86 per kg. Owing to
transportation and labour expenses, it shot up to Rs 40 per kg. The AAP
government then decided to subsidise the onion price by another Rs 10
per kg and decided to sell them at Rs 30 per kg," Delhi's Food and
Supplies Minister Asim Ahmed Khan told Mail Today. He alleged that Nafed
was politicising the issue even when it supsupplied onions at high
prices to Mother Dairy and Safal.
RTI replies provided by the Delhi government's Department of Food
Supplies and Consumer Affairs, however, present a different picture. The
RTI documents accessed by Mail Today revealed that the government had
purchased 2,511 metric tonnes (25,11,000 kgs) of onions through SFAC at
an average price of Rs 18.57 per kg, which also includes cess and other
local expenses. The purchases were made from various markets of Nashik
in Maharashtra and Indore in Madhya Pradesh. However, when the onion
crisis aggravated in the Capital, the government on August 5 decided to
sell onions at a no-profit-no-loss basis through its vans.
Twitter Tweets
#1YearOfHonestPolitics? Really @ArvindKejriwal? Do i need to remind #AAPTards the CBI Raid? @AamAadmiParty Leaders arrested? #OnionScam?— Sagar Khandelwal (@Khandelw13Sagar) February 10, 2016
— Pradeep Kumar (@Pradeep28bh) February 6, 2016
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