Current Affairs for Civil Services

1. Essential Commodities Act
By: Harveer Singh
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2. • To ensure the availability of any commodity at
fair price govt can declare it essential
commodity.
• Government can control the production,
supply, and distribution of these commodities
for maintaining or increasing supplies and
securing their equitable distribution.
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3. • 7 Categories (1) Drugs; (2) Fertilizer, inorganic,
organic or mixed; (3) Foodstuffs, including
edible oilseeds and oils; (4) Hank yarn made
wholly from cotton; (5) Petroleum and
petroleum products; (6) Raw jute and jute
textile; (7) (i) seeds of food-crops and seeds of
fruits and vegetables; (ii) seeds of cattle
fodder; and (iii) jute seeds, cotton seeds
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4. • State/UT imposes stock or turnover limits for
various commodities.
• Parliament's estimates committee asked the
government to come out with a new
legislation for controlling the retail prices of
essential commodities such as rice, wheat,
pulses, edible oils, sugar, milk and vegetables
means this act is not that effective.
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