The Agriculture Department in association with the Hailakandi district administration started making door-to-door delivery of fruits besides vegetables through hawkers.
The initiative has been taken in a view of the Ramzan which is expected to begin from April 24th, 2020 and will conclude on May 23rd, 2020.
Sub-Divisional Agriculture Officer, RA Ahmed said the department has provided the fixed price list of fruits and vegetables to the hawkers and requested the consumers to make the payment as per the list.
Ahmed said any hawker not displaying the price list of items and taking more than the fixed rates would be penalised and his licence would be cancelled.
“Vendors will have to display the price list for information of the buyers. Any deviation on the part of the fruit vendors would pave the way for cancellation of the sale permission forthwith,” he added.
He asked the public to lodge a complaint if any hawker takes advantage of the lockdown situation to dupe the consumers.
District Development Commissioner (DDC), Vikram Dev Sharma stated that no shops selling fruits and dry fruits would be allowed to sale directly to the consumers during the lockdown period. The earlier order allowing such shops to operate stands terminated.
“It said that in view of Ramzan and for the public in general, all kinds of fruits and dry fruits would be sold by the vendors at the doorstep of the people across the district,” the order stated.
The District Agriculture Officer would select the vendors and arrange necessary passes specifying the area of operation to facilitate door-to-door selling of fruits, the order added.
The district administration is ensuring doorstep delivery of fish, milk, eggs, poultry and meat. The district-level committee constituted for the purpose headed by DDC, Sharma is supervising and monitoring the home delivery of items by the vendors to safeguard the interest of the consumers.
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