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News India Live, Digital Desk: The Center has imposed a stock limit on wheat for traders/wholesale vendors, retailers, large retail vendors and processors with large retail sellers and processors to prevent hoarding and betting, which increases inflation.
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said on Thursday, “The Government of India has imposed stock limits on wheat in all states and union territories to prevent the management of overall food safety and dishonesty and dishonesty.
(i) Merchant/wholesale traders: 3000 metric tons;
(ii) retail seller: 10 metric tons for each retail shop.
(iii) Larger chain retailer: up to 10 metric tons for each retail outlet, provided that maximum amount (10 times the total number of outlets) is metric tons. This will be the maximum stock that can be kept together at all their retail outlets and depots.
(iv) Processor: 70% of the monthly installed capacity (MIC) will be multiplied by the remaining months of FY 2025-26.
All wheat storage institutions are required to declare the status of stock on every Friday on wheat stock portal (https://evegoils.nic.in/wsp/login, which will be transferred to https://foodstock.dfpd.gov.in over time). Proper punitive action will be taken against any institution that was not found registered on the portal or violating the stock limit under Section 6 and 7 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
If the stock near the above institutions is higher than the prescribed limit, they will have to bring it to the prescribed stock limit within 15 days of the notification. Officials of the central and state governments will closely monitor the enforcement of these stock boundaries to ensure that there is no artificial shortage of wheat in the country.
The central government has purchased 298.17 LMT wheat (up to 27.05.2025) through state agencies/FCI which is sufficient to meet the requirement of PDS, OWS and other market intervention schemes. The Department of Food and Public Distribution is keeping a close watch on the stock status of wheat to control prices in the country and ensure easy availability.
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