Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar has informed that the process of paddy procurement is going on smoothly and the State government has so far procured about 4.61 lakh metric tonnes of paddy from 61,300 farmers across the State.
The Chief Secretary held a meeting with officials of the civil supplies department and took stock of the paddy procurement in the State.
Anil Kumar, commissioner of the civil supplies department, informed that paddy procurement is going at a brisk pace and the present availability of gunny bags is sufficient to procure 31 lakh MTS of paddy.
The Commissioner said that while 7.8 crore gunny bags are readily available, tenders for procuring another eight crore gunny bags are being finalized. In addition to this, about 2.5 crore gunny bags will be received from Jute Corporation of India shortly.
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Stating that a total of 51 check posts have been established in 17 bordering districts of the State to ensure that paddy is not brought by middlemen from other States to the paddy procurement centres, the State government has so far procured about 4.61 metric tonnes of paddy from 61,300 farmers through 3679 paddy procurement centres.
On the occasion, the Chief Secretary directed the officials to upload the details of paddy procured on the same day so that payment can be made to farmers at the earliest.
Somesh Kumar said that money is not a problem as the government has mobilised Rs.5,000 crores so far for this purpose.
“As soon as the paddy is procured, the same is being sent to mills. 4.3 lakh MTS paddy has been shifted to mills and there is no backlog,”, the Chief Secretary said.
As the harvesting has not started in Warangal, Gadwal, Wanaparthy, Bhoopalpally and Nagarkurnool districts, paddy procurement centres have not been set up in these districts, the Chiefhief Secretary said and added that the paddy procurement centres will be set up once harvesting in these districts begins.
Raji Reddy, General Manager of procurement, Arun, deputy general manager of procurement, Vishwanth, Asst. The Commissioner of IT and other senior officials were present.
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