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Project work:

Visit a fair price shop in your town/village. Collect information about the following topics:


a. Which items are distributed there?


b. At what prices the items are distributed? Observe the differences between the prices of the items there and those sold in grocery shops.


c. To how many families they distribute the items?


(a)


• Kerosene


• Rice


• Wheat


• Wheat flour


• Sugar


b)



c) They distribute the items in the ration shops to all the cardholders in the locality according to the stocks available to them. But more benefits will be given to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) cardholders. They will be given most of the items free of cost or at negligible prices. The Above Poverty Line (APL) holders will also be given the items at lower prices as compared to grocery shops.


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