Scheme to Protect Local Vendors to be Launched
Patna: June 7, 2007
The state government is gearing up to introduce 'Bihar Green', a project aimed to help local vegetable farmers and vendors compete against their more swanky, flashy competitions located in shopping complexes and large everything-under-on-roof grocery stores.
Under this scheme, smaller vegetable shops will be set up around the existing Sudha Dairy booths and in various sophisticated, air-conditioned stores and shopping plazas in the state capital, officials said following a marathon meeting with the Chief Minister at his Secretariat office in Patna on Thursday.
The plan will be implemented by the Social Welfare department to protect small vendors from being out-marketed by larger, private companies who are coming up in large numbers in the changing economic environment in Bihar, officials said.
Wearing a standard uniform, these vendors from Patna and around will be provided assistance in setting up their shops and earn a minimum profit that would help them compete with large business houses.
In the first phase, air-conditioned shops would be set up possibly in Lok Nayak Bhawan, Maurya Complex, Maharaja Complex, and NP Center. Later, depending on the plan's successful implementation and operation, the scheme would be expanded in other areas including Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Purnia, and Bhagalpur.
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