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ACTIVITIES
EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS |
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- Business practices of CSD have evolved over the years and are
based on commercial, financial and administrative experience.
The development of these practices have always kept the objective
of the organization in view. The department procures consumer
goods and consumer-durable products in bulk directly from suppliers
and positions them at 33 Area Depots(acting as whole sale depots),
spread all over the country, for meeting the requirements of over
3500 URCs which function as retail outlets. Many of the URCs are
located in remote/inaccessible parts of the country. Today our
clientele is about four million households, comprising soldiers,
sailors, airmen, serving and retired and their dependents.
- It is relevant to highlight the salient differences in the purchases
made by us and the other government departments. While the other
Government depatments make purchases for their own consumption
and utilisation, the CSD purchases stores for whole sale retailing.
The Department sells stores to unit canteens based on their monthly
demands which, in turn are based on what their customers wish
to buy from their hard-earned money. Hence the Department procures
only those products which are demanded by the customers.
- As CSD provides access to a large market and being a department
of the Government and because of the bulk orders and assured payments,
a large number of suppliers are interested in doing business with
the Department. CSD has an all-India spread infrastructure but
it works within the parameters stipulated by the Government, as
public funds are involved.
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