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The government wants ICRIER to reduce this amount, and
it appears it would not submit the report till this bill is cleared by
the government. The Director and chief executive Rajiv Kumar has not commented
on the issue.
The additional survey was conducted by ICRIER last year
because the government wanted to broadbase the study. This was after preliminary
presentations were made to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion
(DIPP) in the commerce and industry ministry.
The Centre is of the opinion that Rs 16 lakh is too big
a price-tag for an additional survey.
The government's objective was to draw up a comprehensive
retail policy from the findings of the study. Early last year, motivated
by Sonia Gandhi, the President of Congreess party, the Prime Minister's
Office (PMO) had directed the commerce and industry ministry to get a
study done on the impact of organised and big retail on the smaller, mom-n-pop
stores.
The preliminary findings of the study had shown that
small stores have been able to adjust to the emergence of organised retail
and that the impact of modern retail on smaller stores wears off with
time.
ICRIER was to submit its study to the government by August
2007, but it got delayed because the think-tank was asked to broad-base
it after a preliminary presentation was made to the DIPP.
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