After Indian prime Minster Modi speech during lockdown and stress for ‘vocal for local’, the home ministry on May 13 declared that 1,700 Central Police Canteens (CPCs) or Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF)canteens will only sell indigenous or “swadeshi” products from June 1 in a bid to give a boost to domestic industries.
The CAPFs — CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP, SSB and NSG — canteens do an estimated business worth Rs 3200 crore annually by selling their products to 50 lakh family members of about 10 lakh personnel of these forces tasked for a variety of internal security duties and border guard.
As per the order of May 29, the communication to CAPF canteens said that products of 1,026 products will not be sold at Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandars or the CAPF canteens anymore from Monday as they are not ‘swadeshi’ or are prepared from imported products, a government order said.
But The government suddenly withdrew the order de-listing 1,026 companies from sales at CAPF canteens.
Sources say several of these products are made in India and a revised order will be shared soon.
Issuing a statement, the CRPF said, “This is clarified that the list issued by Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar on May 29, 2020, regarding the delisting of certain products has been erroneously issued at the level of CEO.
The list has been withdrawn and action is being initiated for the lapse.
The original order would have left out over 1,000 products manufactured by firms like Dabur, VIP industries, Eureka Forbes, Jaquar, HUL (foods), Nestle India from being sold at CAPF canteens anymore from Monday as they are not ‘swadeshi’ or are prepared from purely imported products, a government order said.
The order said all those items which are made from “purely imported products” are being de-listed from Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar or CAPF canteens from Monday.
But an insider said that products worth crores are lying in CAPF canteens due to the lockdown and cannot be returned back.
“It seems like the decision to go “Swadeshi” was done in a hurry. The officer who took decision must have also been running out of time to take out such order since it came from Home Minister directly,” the insider source confirmed
Inside sources further reveals the first day for Swadeshi (indigenous) products drive has landed top officer of Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar in hot soup.
The sincere officer RM Meena, DIG, CEO-GM, Headquarters KPKB who executed vocal for local slogan states in his letter that product categorisation has been done on the sole basis of information provided by the firms themselves.
Having taken by reversal of his order in a day the officer put up a defence stand and said In case of any litigation, the information provided by the firms will be used as evidence and onus to prove the information as correct will be on the respective firm.
However, the officer mentioned that the “order has been approved by a Competent Authority”.
But now the competent authority from Home Ministry has itself stopped its approval .. In NutShell The vocal for local’ call by Indian PM been thus now put hold by Home Ministry ..
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