Dharmabad :

On behalf of All Maharashtra Fair Price Shopkeepers Federation and Nanded District Ration Shopkeepers Association Nanded, State Level Executive Meeting and District Mela was organized at GN Garden Pilgrimage Basar (Telangana State).

The regional president of the organization Ganpatrao Dolse Patil was the president of the meeting while Sanjay Deshmukh Wardha District President, Sanjay Patil Working President, Baburao Mhamane General Secretary, Shantaram Patil, Appasaheb Todkari Satara, Devidas Desai Ahmednagar, Shankarao Suravase Thane, Raju Rikme Palghar, Samadhan Kadam Osmanabad, were among the chief guests. Sanjay Sable Dhule, Ashok Edke District President Nanded etc. were present.

This meeting was organized with the aim of understanding the problems and problems of the ration shopkeepers in rural and urban areas and conveying those problems to the government through the organization.  In this, mainly the ration shopkeepers distributed food grains without caring for their lives during the Covid period, so they should be given a certificate by the government as Corona warriors. During the meeting, there was a discussion about the frequent shutdowns of ePod machines and constant network problems, making ISO certification optional for ration shopkeepers and other necessary demands.  Increasing the commission or paying monthly salary to the ration shopkeepers like other states, many times the card holders are more but the government gets less grain, thus creating a suspicious attitude towards the ration shopkeeper among the common citizens. At this time, many honest shopkeepers expressed their regret that even after working, they are not getting proper salary and the common citizens have a feeling that honest shopkeepers are thieves.

The said meeting was organized on behalf of Dharmabad Taluka Ration Shopkeepers Association.  To make this meeting a success, Dharmabad Taluka President Sainath Gorje, Shankar Rajure, Laxman Mangrule, Mahesh Shivshette, Suryakant Patil Junnikar, Shivaji Patil Bablikar, Madhav Awadhute, Dharmanna Lakhmawad, Ashok Arge, Siddharth Devke, Shesherao Patil, Ganthod, Poshatti Madanure, Chandrakant Gaikwad etc. worked hard.