Indore: Opposing their inclusion in the Food Safety and Security Act, the food grain traders have announced to launch a series of statewide protest from January 14.
The MP Anaj Evam Dalhan Vyapari Sangh convened a meeting of around 500 food grain traders on Sunday.
Association president Gopaldas Agrawal told said that the act will come into effect in February and under the provisions, the farmers are exempted from penal provisions in case food grains carry impurities but the traders are liable for the same in case of raids or surprise inspections.
Agrawal said that food grain traders simply buy the food grain and mostly the products carry soil, insects etc in raw form.
We don’t sell it to the consumers, we only sell the product to processors, so how come we should be penalised under the act.
In the meeting it was decided to meet MLAs across the state on January 14 for briefing them about the issue.
Besides, the district heads would hold press conferences on January 16 in their respective districts.
The traders would submit memorandums to their district collectors on January 18 while effigies of the act would be set ablaze across the state on January 20, Agrawal affirmed.
He demanded that the Centre should keep the food grain traders out of the ambit of this act.
The food grain supplies might be affected if the traders persist with their stir and start buying food grain by assessing the quality of the product, which could fulfill the criteria set by the act.
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