{"id":48,"date":"2013-03-16T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/\/?p=48"},"modified":"2013-03-16T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:37:27","slug":"people-reject-fdi-in-retail-in-the-public-hearing-organized-by-east-delhi-municipal-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"People Reject FDI in Retail in the Public Hearing Organized by East Delhi Municipal Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"
September 28th, 2012<\/div>\n

\nTrade Unions, Street Vendors Associations, RWAs & Civil Society expressed their opinion: 98% voted against FDI in Retail in the opinion poll<\/b><\/div>\n
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Respecting Peoples verdict EDMC will not grant trade licences to FDI Retailers: Mayor<\/b><\/div>\n
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In an unprecedented initiative, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) organized a public hearing to take note of the peoples\u2019 opinion on the issue of FDI in Retail. People from all sections of society including street vendors, small shop keepers, trade unions, resident welfare associations, civil society representative participated in the public hearing.<\/div>\n
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Delivering the opening remark, Dr. Annapurna Mishra, the Hon\u2019ble Mayor of East Delhi said that the purpose of the initiative is to take note of the peoples\u2019 voice to help the corporation in shaping trade policies.<\/div>\n
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An opinion poll was also conducted to know the views of participants. 98% participants opined against FDI in Retail.<\/div>\n
Hakim Singh Rawat, R B singh Rajpoot, Sodan Singh, Bijender Yadav, Pravesh Sharma, Bansi Lal (street vendors), Praveen Khandelwal, Satish Garg, Raj Kumar Bhatia, Om Prakash Dubey, Deepak Sharma (Traders), Ashwini Mahajan (SJM), Aneesh Mishra (trade union) Vikramjeet Banerjee (Advocate) and many others expressed their view on FDI in Retail.<\/div>\n
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Concluding the public hearing senior journalist Sh. Ram Bahadur Rai said that in the past the Prime Minister was against FDI in Retail. He alleged that such policy decisions are influenced by powerful international lobby groups.<\/div>\n
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The Leader of opposition, Ms. Varyam Kaur, who was also invited for the public hearing came at the closing stages and abruptly interrupted the meeting shouting that the Municipal Corporation can not organize such event.<\/div>\n
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The Hon\u2019ble Mayor stated that public opinion is evident on the issue of FDI in Retail and respecting the peoples\u2019 verdict the EDMC would bring a motion to oppose FDI in Retail and would not grant any trade licences to FDI retailers.\u00a0 She said that a detailed report of the proceedings would be send to the Hon\u2019ble Lt. Governor and Chief Minister of Delhi.<\/div>\n
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Dharmendra\u00a0Kumar of India FDI Watch conducted the proceeding.<\/div>\n
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September 28th, 2012 Trade Unions, Street Vendors Associations, RWAs & Civil Society expressed their opinion: 98% voted against FDI in Retail in the opinion poll \u00a0 Respecting Peoples verdict EDMC will not grant trade licences to FDI Retailers: Mayor In an unprecedented initiative, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) organized a public hearing to take note … Continue reading “People Reject FDI in Retail in the Public Hearing Organized by East Delhi Municipal Corporation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}