Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM) is a Mumbai-based summit organisation of 750 small-scale and trade & service providers associations in

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

, India. Founded in 1979, it led traders against what it considered "harsh provisions" of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act in April 2005. FAM has opposed measures by the Indian government to allow

foreign direct investment A foreign direct investment (FDI) is an ownership stake in a company, made by a foreign investor, company, or government from another country. More specifically, it describes a controlling ownership an asset in one country by an entity based i ...

(FDI) in the retail sector.Arpita Mukherjee, PhD; Arpita Mukherjee & Nitisha Patel.
Fdi in Retail Sector India: A Report by Icrier And Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Government of India
'. Academic Foundation; 1 January 2005 ited 25 November 2012 . p. 117. It has likened FDI in retail to a "foreign invasion. In a protest in which it participated 3.5 million member establishments closed for a one-day

bandh Bandh () is a form of protest used by political activists in South Asian countries such as India and Nepal. It is similar to a general strike. During a bandh, a political party or a community declare a general strike. For example, a ''Bharat (t ...

. In October, 2012 the opposition

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has cited a letter written to FAM by

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, now Prime Minister of India, in 2002, when he was the leader of the opposition in the

Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is the upper house of the Parliament of India and functions as the institutional representation of India’s federal units — the states and union territories.https://rajyasabha.nic.in/ It is a key component o ...

, India's upper house of parliament, alleging

double standard A double standard is the application of different sets of principles for situations that are, in principle, the same. It is often used to describe treatment whereby one group is given more latitude than another. A double standard arises when two ...

s practiced by him. It is a co-signatory to a letter written in 2010 that called for a halt to "Free Trade Agreement" negotiations between India and the European Union. It is associated with a

₹ The Indian rupee sign ⟨₹⟩ is the currency symbol for the Indian rupee (ISO 4217: INR), the official currency of India. Designed by D. Udaya Kumar, it was presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, following its ...

100 billion urban redevelopment project at Chira Bazar in

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. Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/FAMindia.in

References

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