Live
- Anantapur SP leads joint operation with Karnataka police on illicit liquor
- India to add 13,000 km of new highways in 2024-25: ICRA report
- Salman Khan case: 2 shooters nabbed from Pakistan-bordering Kachchh, sent to 10-day police custody
- Astronomers discover Milky Way's heaviest known black hole
- Jupally helds a Road Show along with Mallu Ravi
- SP Riti Raj helds Monthly Review with the district police
- DIG Chauhan says sports are very beneficial for health
- Rahul Gandhi has not contributed to India's development, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar
- Assam Rifles jawan injured as patrol ambushed in Tinsukia, ULFA-I claims responsibility
- IMF increases India's growth projection to 6.8 pc for 2024
Vijayawada: Protest staged against milk price hike
Protesting against the hike in milk price, the city unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a protest demonstration in front the milk products factory here on Saturday before submitting a memorandum to the management of the factory.
Vijayawada: Protesting against the hike in milk price, the city unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a protest demonstration in front the milk products factory here on Saturday before submitting a memorandum to the management of the factory.
People of various areas, including Vambay colony, AVS Reddy Road, Fire Station Road, Santinagar, Patelnagar, LBS Nagar, Moghalrajapuram, Patamata, Ramalingeswarnagar, Ranigari Thota, Krishnalanka, Bhramarambapuram and other areas in the city staged protest demonstrations while sticking to social distancing rules
CPI-M State executive committee member Ch Babu Rao in a statement here on Saturday recalled that the State government announced that the prices of essential commodities should not be hiked at a time when the people are facing problems due to lockdown. In spite of the government instructions, the milk price was hiked by Rs 2 to Rs 4 per litre hitting hard the people.
If the milk price was hiked by the cooperative societies which are under government control, how the private traders could be controlled from hiking prices, he wondered.
Milk is an essential commodity and necessary for people to get nutrition in the backdrop of the outbreak of Covid-19, he said and appealed to the government to roll back the prices of milk immediately.
He said that the government hiked liquor prices to discourage people from drinking alcohol. He wondered whether that the government also hiked milk price only to discourage people from buying milk.
Babu Rao said that various welfare schemes announced by the government were not being implemented. For instance, the Rs 500 additional allowance for the aged, widows, single women and physically challenged was not given, he pointed out.
