We need Walmarts Because Our Banias Are Super Scoundrels, Dalals

We need Walmarts Because Our Banias Are Super Scoundrels, Dalals

Mr. Mukund Apte, banias for 5000 years didn't invent a thing but even in Dalali or trading they are Super Haramis – they will adulterate & Hoard foods, Double or Tripple Profit Margins. When you buy from Diapers to Ipad made by foreign companies why do you object to FDI in retail? 
 
You may be Bhartiya but why did your parents used Diapers to cover your beautiful things that even our gods didn't cover as children. Sadhus, Monks and a sect of Jain wear little, don't use any foreign goods. Why did you buy note books made of imported pulp when Slate and Chalk are Indian products, Why did you wear pants and shirts when a loin cloth is sufficient. Why did you use Internet when you can get all the information at early morning RSS Camps? Why did you travel in vehicles made by foreign companies using imported fuels when bullock cart is Indian? 
 
Mukund you have a choice of ancestors, live on trees, eat its fruits and leaves that avoid use of any foreign product and technology. 
 
I am glad RK Gupta had commented on FDI in retail and defended Super Scoundrel Dalals and Banias. 
 
I didn't expect a Bania to concede to even one Harami conduct due to 5000 years old genetic heritage. 
 
Yes I know 90% Indians can't afford storages cost and need be directly served fresh foods – and more than 80% of them living in rural India or next to rural India are served fresh foods. Still we need 250 million tones to 300 million tones of scientific storage to ensure quality, year round availability, avoid imports and stabilize prices. 
 
But RK Gupta didn't tell us why we need our foods to be routed through 4-5 Haramis all double tripling quadrupling prices. I know of cases a Son operates in village selling Fertilizers and substandard Inputs and lending money to farmers at 3% to 5% interest rate, his father operating as Commission Agent in nearby town and  
Why can't farmers directly sell to consumers? 
 
But RK Gupta didn't tell us when UK built Titanic in 1919 in 1947 India didn't make sewing needle. 
 
But RK Gupta didn't tell us Chorwari Bania (Ambani) promised to produce 40 times more Oil & Gas in 2002 when it acquired 25 Huge Offshore Petroleum blocks by 2001.  
 
But RK Gupta didn't tell us even Narendra Modi claimed more Oil & Gas discovery than even Chorwari Bania in 2005 and named 'Deen Dyal Upadhyay Blocks' but didn't invest to develop the Oil & Gas blocks. 
 
But RK Gupta didn't tell us when we ought to be using CNG vehicles (Pakistan has over70%) and CNG priced below Rs.10/- per kg – Petrol cost Rs.80 per kg. 
 
Ravinder Singh
Inventor & Consultant
December10, 2011

--- On Fri, 12/9/11, Mukund Apte <mdapte@gmail.com> wrote:

Date: Friday, December 9, 2011, 1:52 AM
      Dear Sir,
 
      My only basic question on this topic is 'why do we need some foreigner's to sell our own (essential) agriculturally produced human needs to our own people'? How can this exercise becomes better (for all) and more cheaper is beyond me. I am a simple Bhaarateey person. Can you please explain sir? I shall be grateful.
 
      With regard to all,
 
      -----Mukund Apte 
Mr Singh don't act like unrelenting and irrorrigible stooger of mobile mobike singh a fraudulent ex[pert and a corrupt opportunist ex babu enjoying Pm perks without any responsibility at age of 80.This man has no vision no knowledge and no guts. PM has to be apolitical manager and not a economics book worm. Since this man has come he has started Khao Piyo and eigh kero culture in India. See how sick this guy is. First he promotes huge fuel guzzling cars knowing we have no petrol and then he puts street tax on cars. IN FACT HE IS BRAINLESS, DIRECTIONLESS AND AIM LESS OPPORTUNIST PUPPET HOTTING PM SEAT AND LETTING CAPITALISTS LOOT THE COUNTRY.YOU ARE DOING SAME,HELPING PROMOTE HIM AND HIS POLICIES.FRANKLY I FEEL HE SHOULD BE IN JAIL FOR LIEING,LOOT AND TREASON. 
 
Can you tell me why vegetables and fruit should be stored? These are having very small life after plucking and should be rushed to markets. Like an idiot you talk. Without knowledge. It costs money to store, keep cool, preserve and do double handling of goods. Only staple food are supposed to be stored for national food security. Why one should eat apples when season is not there? This is idiotic. Who stopped government form setting up procurement chain? They have so many companies all thieves and corrupt guys politically appointed and from reserve quotas. They eat the company. India has enough big financial markets band access to foreign loans to expand logistics. Please stop talking crap all the time. Bharti wall mart though wholesale started selling to customers in their stores. These guys are cheats and money hungry to core. They don't come to India for service or charity. Marketing committees are biggest chor in India. They are cause for price
rise like It is DDA and JDAQ types who raise prices of land. The whole system is foolish and illogical. BUT SINGH IS BRANDED AS EXPERT WHILE HE IS REALLY A BIG IDIOT OF ECONOMICS AND GOVERNANCE. There is no need at all to do retailing in India by MNCs. Companies like Nestle are cheating country by selling milk at Rs 40 per kg. Same with Gillette or any one you name it. Third rate quality and prices raised by 150% ATLEAST SINCE SINGH HAS COME. HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.HE IS INVIOLVED IN THIS LOOT. This is useless crap about FDI. Let us close this discussion now. 
 
RK Gupta Moderator [Janshakti] 
 
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Ravinder Singh wrote:
 
Managing 700mt Foods- Why FDI in Retail, How to Implement It?  
 
India produces over 700mt of Foodgrains, Fruit & Vegetables and milk, eggs & meats that may double by 2050 but there is not even 2% scientific Storage and Processing facility developed in 65 years since independence. High cost low quality foods directly affect health and nutrition intake of all Indians. 
 
In fact India doesn't have Experience, Technology & Inclination to upgrade to Scientific Food Storage and Process in next 100 years, this alone is justified to allow 100% FDI in retail. Priority as given in the end ought to have been Mega Wholesale Stores directly procuring foods from farmers & manufacturers in bulk and for first ten years exclusively serve local retailers allowing minimum Rs.1000 per day sales.  
 
GOI provides over Rs.3,00,000 crores Bank Credits to Traders & Retail, more than to all 800m farmers yet there is no infrastructure developed even as 100% to 500% profit margins are realized by traders without any value additions. 
 
Examples - Till yesterday we were talking of Potato selling for Rs.10/- to Rs.20/- per kg in Delhi while farmers in Punjab, UP and Haryana were getting not even Rs.1 per kg – old and used jute bags alone cost 0.30p per kg. Today we learnt Onion prices have also crashed to Rs.2/- per kg that retails for Rs.20/- per kg presently to Rs.50/- per kg recently. 
 
Why FDI in Retail? 
 
i) FDI in retail is essential to ensure farmers get maximum price for their produce,
 
ii) to ensure Consumers get essential commodities at lowest stable prices,
 
iii) to involve farmers in Scientific Storage & Processing of Foods and to more than double farmers income and also double purchasing capacity of foods by consumers.   
 
iv) Co-operatives & State programs failed to make impact due to Corruption & Politics. Markfed paid 0.55p per kg for green Mustard Crop that was cooked and canned – 450g till of plain Sarson Ka Saag was retailed for Rs.50/- in 1995. Mother Dairy though procured directly from farmers but farmers were not given Minimum Price for their foods – prices were linked to Azadpur Mandi fluctuating wholesale rates. 
 
Last Decade: BJP NDA in order to provide food storage & management infrastructure allowed Corporate India in to food RETAIL & also partly allowed FDI in retail to provide Super Stores to serve Retail Stores. 
 
iv) But there is limited investment to improve infrastructure – just 9 Best Price stores had opened so far by Walmart-Bharti JV. 
 
v) Corporates started major programs to install thousands of Retail Shops mainly with an eye on cashing in on Real Estate boom than bridging the gap between farm gate prices and retail prices. 
 
- These merely added cost to the supply chain without seriously challenging the Gross Mismanagement and Exploitation by multi level trade. Except few items rest of the items are charged at MRP. 
 
Politics Opposition Sabotaging FDI Plan – GOI bungling 
 
It is obvious Opposition Parties didn't want any Government Initiate to succeed – even nuclear program is sabotaged. 
 
GOI also bungled up when it didn't squarely address the main issue of Safely & Scientifically managing distributing 700 million tones of foods produced in India as central objective and serving daily needs of consumers. 
 
In USA a Pizza at Pizza Hut cost say $10 but for same money 5 pre-cooked Pizzas are retailed in Mega Food Stores. 
 
Limiting FDI Retail to big cities where 90% of Retailers & Vendors operate was a blunder because this was to serve around 20% of food requirement when focus ought to have been Rural Markets directly serving all farmers procuring and managing 700mt foods serving retailers through these Wholesale Super Stores.
 
Mail Order and Nehru Place like wholesale markets are addressing the needs of non food commodities. 
 
How to Implement FDI in Retail? – Two Middlemen Better Than Five 
 
GOI ought to have opened up 100% of FDI in 'Wholesale Super Stores' that shall serve millions of retailers and vendors bypassing other middlemen in trade numbering not more than 100,000 in all. This alone would cut down average prices by 50% for most fruits & vegetables, packaged foods without three middlemen. 
 
1.)  GOI ought to promote FDI in Retail with priority on Investment in Rural & Food Infrastructure that shall serve retailers in cities. An acre in rural India cost Rs.1 crore in good locations but an acre in cities cost upwards of Rs.100 crores. 
 
Ø      This is essential from logistics point of view also – GOI can't allow slow moving Bullock Carts and Tractor Trolleys to swarm our Highways by locating Super Stores near major cities. 
 
2. GOI ought to give incentives to Foreign and India Big Retailers to open up Retail Stores to companies who shall install minimum 500 Wholesale Stores each in Rural India individually with automatic permission after 10 years to graduate to retail outlets. JV or Partnerships like Walmart-Bharti to install 1000 Wholesale Stores. This would safeguard against takeovers to qualify for Retail Outlets. 
 
3.) Since cities have Traffic Congestions and fuel prices are very high – it was not prudent to locate Retail Superstores in cities. Street vendors therefore can't be removed entirely. 
            
4.) Cities ought to authorize Coffee Shops, Grocery Stores, Retail Outlets, Franchise Food Corners in ground floors for every block of 500 living units provided owners make available adequate parking. This shall address menace of illegal roadside vendors, reduce congestion in shopping complexes. 
 
Ravinder Singh
Inventor & Consult 
December08, 2011
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