Subsidised Nafed onions selling like hot cakes in Delhi

Subsidised onions at Rs 35 a kg vendored by agri-cooperative Nafed are selling like hot cakes in the national capital following which the agency has increased the number of such mobile vans from Friday.

"Onions of all the 20 mobile vans (carrying about 500 kg each) sold within two hours of setting out in the morning," Nafed chairman Bijendra Singh told PTI.

One person is not permitted to buy more than two kg of onion from the vans (as also in the Nafed outlets) in a day.

Singh. who is also a Delhi MLA had on Thursday flagged off 15 such mobile vans. These vans are scheduled to venture out at 10 am and sell the veggie till 6 pm.

A total of 7,500 kg of onion in the 15 vans were sold on Thursday in different parts of Delhi.