edGibson G Vedamani, CEO, Retailers 
Association of India feels, “Retail provides immense benefit to consumer and small scale manufacturer. You can’t deprive consumers from these benefits on the ground of closing of small shops. Organised retail also means mass scale employment.” Ironically, just 15 days prior to ordering the Fresh shops to down their shutters, the CM had passed the agriculture policy, permitting the private companies to directly deal with the farmers. All Mayawati needs to do is, take a fresh look at the problems farmers’ face while dealing with the middle-men in the mandis’. And if, indeed her concern for the farmers are genuine, she needs to think beyond settling political scores with Mulayam Singh & his cohorts. One only hopes that this time, Mayawati will use power to graduate from being a vote grabber to being a serious policy maker.
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Association of India feels, “Retail provides immense benefit to consumer and small scale manufacturer. You can’t deprive consumers from these benefits on the ground of closing of small shops. Organised retail also means mass scale employment.” Ironically, just 15 days prior to ordering the Fresh shops to down their shutters, the CM had passed the agriculture policy, permitting the private companies to directly deal with the farmers. All Mayawati needs to do is, take a fresh look at the problems farmers’ face while dealing with the middle-men in the mandis’. And if, indeed her concern for the farmers are genuine, she needs to think beyond settling political scores with Mulayam Singh & his cohorts. One only hopes that this time, Mayawati will use power to graduate from being a vote grabber to being a serious policy maker.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
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