What We Need To Know About The News Of Vishal Group

Sunil Chhetri
2 min readDec 7, 2020

While consuming a food product, quality is everything which matters. It is needless to mention that whenever people buy a packaged food product they check out their best before date or expiry date. But what is that expiry date has been relabelled and even after you have dutifully checked the expired date of food product, you will still be consuming something which has expired.

A similar kind of event happened in Nepal just a month back when expired food products of reputed brands like Snickers, Pringles and Oreo were found in the market of Nepal on a large scale. During the investigation, one of the most reputed conglomerates of Nepal, Vishal Group’s name was heavily criticized by the media.

But what did Vishal Group did? Are they even involved in this relabelling scam? Is it really justified that people are calling the scam as ‘Vishal Group relabelling scam’?

Vishal group is one of the most popular conglomerates of Nepal as they are one of the biggest contributors of the society and also one of the highest taxpayers of Nepal. From my point of view, it is absolutely unbelievable that a conglomerate which has done dozens of social works in the past would be connected to a scam like this just for the sake of earning more money.

During the lockdown, the conglomerate has helped the country by distributing sanitizers, N95 masks and other medical supplies and as we all know that even the government was suffering during to lockdown in order to support the public health, Vishal group donated Rs 1 Crore to the government. As the country was also suffering from tremendous rise of unemployment during that time, Vishal group even created employment opportunities in the country. The vice president of the Group, Mr. Tulsi Ram Agrawal was also awarded the prestigious Prabal Jansewa Shree Award by the Government of Nepal for his immense contribution towards the economy.

However, Vishal group has denied all the allegations and said that they have no connection with the scam. They have also denied any connection with Aryan Distributors, who were responsible for the distribution of those food products.

Strict investigation is still going on to reveal the actual truth. Until then, let’s not harm the image of a conglomerate which has selflessly contributed towards the society since its inception.

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Sunil Chhetri

I have done MA in Public Economics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. I regularly write blog on issues related to economic development, public policy and policy.