RIL may decide on making food retail biz veg-only

MUMBAI: The board of RIL, the country’s most valued firm, will meet tomorrow to discuss, among other things, its retail juggernaut and whether it should continue selling non-vegetarian food items in its outlets.

The board is scheduled to consider the company’s first quarter results for this fiscal, but could take up a few other issues pertaining to its retail venture launched last year, informed sources said. It may deliberate on its proposed 4 million-tonne fertiliser plant to be set up at an estimated investment of over $2.5 billion in either Andhra Pradesh or Gujarat.

Sources said the proposal to consider whether to sell non-vegetarian items in retail stores comes in the backdrop of recent protests against Reliance Retail and Aditya Birla Group’s stores by vegetarian activists and investors from the Jain community.