Ministers visit paddy procurement centre, ask officials to speed up purchase

HYDERABAD

Minister for Civil Provides and Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has assured the farming neighborhood that they’d get assist worth for his or her paddy inventory on the procurement centres and harvesting platforms broken/drenched within the unseasonal rains this week.

Talking throughout a visit to a couple of procurement centres in Hanmakonda, Warangal, Peddapalli and Bhongir districts on Thursday he said that the federal government had procured about 58 lakh tonnes of paddy to date and one other 18 lakh tonnes was anticipated to arrive on the procurement centres over the subsequent few days.

Accompanied by Ministers Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, D. Sridhar Babu and Adluri Lakshman Kumar, Civil Provides Commissioner M. Stephen Ravindra, Mr. Uttam Reddy inspected the procurement course of and inspected godowns at completely different market yards.

He assured farmers that the federal government would proceed to procure paddy with out disruption and make sure that even rain-soaked grain bought by the Civil Provides Division would the Minimal Assist Worth (MSP) as per the prescribed norms. He said that solely about 9,000 tonnes of paddy bought drenched in rain.

“Farmers won’t be let down underneath any circumstances. The Congress Authorities is a farmer-friendly one and it stands firmly with the farming neighborhood and is dedicated to procuring each grain reaching the procurement centres”, the Minister stated whereas reviewing procurement operations with District Collectors and senior officials of erstwhile Karimnagar at Peddapalli, erstwhile Warangal at Hanmakonda and erstwhile Nalgonda at Bhongir.

He said that the State Authorities had already disbursed almost ₹11,000 crore immediately into farmers’ financial institution accounts. In view of premature rains, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy instructed officials to intensify lifting operations and guarantee uninterrupted transportation of procured paddy from centres to rice mills and the operations should be accomplished earlier than the onset of monsoon.

Asking the officials to make use of each obtainable transport car together with lorries, DCMs, vehicles and tractors for motion of primarily paddy over the subsequent four-five days to stop accumulation and publicity to rain. They had been informed to press into service extra autos wherever vital and keep round the clock monitoring of procurement centres in order that no farmer was left to undergo loss due to delays in lifting or transportation.

He additionally informed the officials to enhance storage preparations, deploy satisfactory manpower at procurement centres and strengthen coordination between civil provides, transport, police and income departments to guarantee seamless motion of shares. He requested them to contain millers defaulted on adhering to the customized milling norms on clearing the precept quantities and curiosity due from them leaving the choice on penalties to the State Cupboard.