Sale of onions at ₹35 per kg via fair price shops launched in Tamil Nadu

The Tamil Nadu government has launched a scheme to sell onions at ₹35 per kilogram through fair price shops in Chennai, in an effort to curb the rising prices in the open market. Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Venkataramanan and Minister for Cooperation V. Gandhirajan inaugurated the sale, which has procured around 1,000 tonnes of A-grade onions from Nasik.

These onions are of good marketable quality, not rotting, without excessive sprouting, and of size 45 mm and above. The onions were obtained by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) and the National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India Ltd. (NCCF) and brought to Chennai by goods train and road.

Consumer activist T. Sadagopan has called for the government to make onions available in the farthest corners of the State, as rice and sugar prices are also causing concern ahead of the festival season.

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