With onions selling at around ₹80–₹100 a kilogram in some retail stores and online apps, Ten Pannai Pasumai shops in the city and four mobile shops have started selling onions at ₹30 per kg on Sunday.
“This is a market intervention, and we hope it will bring down the prices. Cooperative stores will also sell onions. Shops in other places will soon start selling onions at ₹30,” said K. Gopal, Secretary, Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department. The department will focus on slums and areas where low-income groups are concentrated.
The State government is procuring onions from the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (Nafed) at ₹25 per kg, adding cleaning, transport, loading/unloading and wastage charges, the cooperatives are able to sell onions at ₹30 per kg.
