BANGALORE: Around twenty thousand fair price shops
in Karnataka, selling goods t lower rates, are about to undergo a
revamp and a change of nomenclature.
As per media reports, the government has plans to
sell other market items at market prices through these shops.
The State Food and Civil Supplies (SFCS) Minister
Mahadev Prasad has been quoted in media reports as saying, the government
is also planning to create a uniform exterior for fair price shops
to enable easy identification of a fair price shop.
The government also considers attaching a fixed number
of ration cards to a particular fair price shop, rather than collecting
food stamps from a particular point and exchanging for, or purchasing
subsidized food grains.
