ROLE & SERVICES

The USC has been successfully playing its role as a price moderator and deterrent to profiteering, hoarding and black marketing since last 33 years. It has intervened the market at a number of times when the unscrupulous private traders had created artificial shortage of essential items like sugar, vegetable ghee, atta, red chillies, pulses etc. With the support of the Government, these crisis situations were averted by the USC by arranging large stocks of items of shortages and selling the same at reasonable prices, in retail as well as wholesale from its 930 stores spread all over the country. The number of stores were subsequently reduced due to closure of economically unavailable stores.