Raipur, 22 January 2022. Chief Secretary Shri Amitabh Jain held a virtual review meeting of paddy procurement held with all the divisional commissioners and collectors of the state today. informed about. Shri Jain told the officials that the State Government has decided to procure paddy from farmers till February 7, taking the process of procurement of paddy ahead by a week. Earlier, paddy was to be procured by January 31. Now till February 7, the procurement of paddy should be done smoothly from the farmers. Token distribution should be done systematically to the farmers who have not sold paddy. Shri Jain has also said that complete lifting of paddy should be done by April 15 from all the cooperative societies of the state. For this, monitoring and monitoring of paddy lifting process should be started from now on.
Chief Secretary Shri Amitabh Jain has asked all the Divisional Commissioners and Collectors to keep a constant vigil on illegal transportation of paddy in the border districts. The disputed persons who have been involved in this work in the past have been asked to keep a strict vigil. The information of the farmers whose paddy has been fully procured from the registered area should be entered in the registration portal. He also directed to conduct an audit of the rejected rice lots in the Civil Supplies Corporation and review it weekly. Mr. Jain has given a target of depositing 30 thousand metric tonnes of rice per day to the districts in the FCI from January 31 onwards. He has said that this work will be completed by making maximum use of milling capacity. The collectors apprised the Chief Secretary about the problems of the districts coming in relation to paddy procurement, lifting and transportation. State level officers have been instructed to solve these problems.
Additional Chief Secretary Shri Subrata Sahu, Secretary Food Department Shri Topeshwar Verma, Managing Director Civil Supplies Corporation Shri Niranjan Das, Special Secretary and Nodal Officer Shri Manoj Soni were present in the meeting.
