Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The object of this measure is to secure better conditions in the markets for the public generally and to protect buyers and sellers and in particular cultivators selling their produce, from unjustified exactions and other malpractices which prevail. With provision of such facilities and protection; the growers' share in. the price of agricultural produce paid by consumers will increase, creating an incentive for improvement in production. The Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1928) while recommending legislation for establishment of regulated markets for agricultural produce says, "Well regulated markets create in the mind of the cultivator a feeling of confidence and of receiving fair play and this _is the mood in which he is most ready to accept new ideas and to strive to improve his agricultural practice' . Accordingly provision has been made in this measure for— (i) licensing of markets ; (ii) standardisation. of rent payable by the sellers to the owners of markets ; (iii) setting up of market committees with a view to supervising the work of the market; (iv) licensing of sellers, etc. ; (v) standardisation of market charges and regulation of market practices ; "(vi) inspection of markets by Government agencies and market committees; The West Bengal Markets Regulation Act, 1968. 19 28 of 1988.] (vii) sanitary arrangements, etc., in markets and proper maintenance of markets by the owners; (viii) establishment of new markets, in public interest ; (ix) taking over management of market by the market committee under certain circumstances in public interest; and (x) collection of information regarding prices, stocks, arrivals, despatches, etc.