राजस्थान की भाजपा सरकार नें किराना व लघु व्यापारी समर्थन में कानूनी कदम उठाए
Small traders and hawkers won another battle. This time in Rajasthan. In its fifth budget, Rajasthan’s BJP government has proposed several ’small trader’ friendly proposals – including a four percent tax on fruits and vegetables sold by corporate-run food stores like Reliance Fresh and Spencers. The levy is aimed at protecting street vendors. Prabhulal Saini, Agriculture Minister, Rajasthan said, “Small vendors and traders cannot compete with big retailers. So to bridge this gap and encourage the small traders, we have made a proposal to levy 4% tax. The small vendor should be able to sell vegetables without paying tax, get concessions & earn his livelihood.
In another development, European Union (EU) calls for new supermarkets inquiry. The European Union assembly has this week called for an investigation into the practices of the larger grocery chains across the continent. The assembly said that the EU’s competition body, the European Commission, should intervene to protect consumer choice and the environment.
Reliance is close to signing an agreement with Polo Ralph Lauren, the US-based design and distribution house, known for its range of high-end casual and semi-formal clothings as well as accessories and fragrances under internationally famous luxury labels like Polo by Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Ralph Lauren, Black Label, Blue Label, Lauren by Ralph Lauren, Chaps and Club Monaco, to bring these premium products in India. However, it is noteworthy that only last week, following opposition by the Pacific Heights Neighborhood Association and the Fillmore Merchants Association, the city Planning Commission of San Francisco voted 6-1 to deny Ralph Lauren permission to open a boutique on Fillmore Street. People are battling against Ralph Lauren in San Francisco’s neighborhoods, and Pacific Heights is the front line. Ralph Lauren had signed a lease for 3,500 square feet at 2040 Fillmore St., the former site of Smith & Hawken, another chain store. The New York-based fashion retailer has long wanted to open a shop on Fillmore Street, where upscale national brands like Marc Jacobs, Simon Pearce and Jonathan Adler have rung up success and turned the neighborhood street into a shopping destination where one-off boutiques mingle with national players. While the Planning Department had recommended the commission approve a conditional use permit for Ralph Lauren, the Fillmore Street Merchants Association has decided to oppose all future chain retail.
Subhiksha, the discount retail chain of India, moves to legal measures to get drugs as drug companies’ are refusing to sell medicines directly to corporate retailers for fear of a boycott by their current retailers and wholesalers. The large drug retailing (5.5 lakh chemists across India) and wholesale industry is extremely well organised and is able to resist corporate hijack through the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists.
In Solidarity!
Dharmendra Kumar
Director
India FDI Watch
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