Disturbances found in stock of fertilizers: notice issued to committee managers

On the instructions of Collector Sunil Kumar Jain, stock matching is being done by the Agriculture Department by inspecting various societies and private agriculture shops in the district continuously, so that sufficient quantity of fertilizers is available to the farmers. In the same vein, under the leadership of Deputy Director Agriculture Sant Ram Paikra, the team of Agriculture Department inspected various cooperative societies and private fertilizer sales centers of Palari and Balodabazar development blocks. During this, irregularities were found in the stock of fertilizers in the cooperative society Amera under Palari development block. Only 132.21 MT of fertilizers was found physically against 325.91 MT of available stock in the POS machine of the society. A total of 193.70 metric tonnes of fertilizers have been sold to farmers without POS machines. To be adjusted by the committee. In this regard, immediate show cause notice has been issued to committee manager Dushyant Kumar Sahu. Similarly, inspection of private fertilizer sales centers and cooperative societies was done in Simga block by Fertilizer Inspector cum Senior Agriculture Development Officer Akhilesh Dutt Dubey. During this, show cause notices have been issued to all the managers for irregularities found in 18 cooperative societies. He said that in cooperative society Vishrampur, 24.03 metric tonnes of fertilizers were found physically against 269.579 metric tonnes available in POS machine and 0.1 metric tonnes of fertilizers were found physically against 27.05 metric tonnes of fertilizers in cooperative society Pausari. Those who have been summoned. Similarly, in other development blocks in the district, the wing available in all private and cooperative fertilizer sales centers is being verified by the fertilizer inspectors. Also, if irregularities are found, strict action is being taken on the instructions of the collector. Vendors are being advised to sell fertilizers through POS machines and biometrics as per rules. Whatever fertilizer has been sold without POS. Instructions have been given to adjust it soon. So that fertilizers can be made available to the district as per demand for the upcoming Kharif. It is worth mentioning that as per the instructions of the government, instructions have been given in the past to all fertilizer vendors to sell fertilizers using pass machines, biometrics, computers or mobile applications under DBT (Fertilizer) scheme.