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Tag: Markfed

  • Chief Minister took meeting, review of departments of Minister Amarjeet Bhagat to prepare budget

    Bhupesh Baghel took a meeting at his residence office on Friday. He reviewed the budget preparations of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Planning, Economic and Statistics, Culture and Twenty Point Program Implementation Department at the meeting. The meeting was attended by Food and Civil Supplies Minister Amarjit Bhagat, Chief In-Charge Subrata Sahu, Food Department Secretary Dr. Kamalpreet Singh, Finance Department Secretary Alarmelmangai D., Markfed Managing Director Ankit Anand, State Civil Supplies Corporation Managing Director Niranjan Das The concerned officers were present. It is noteworthy that the process of budget preparation meeting has started from today. The budget will be reviewed in a meeting of the departments.

  • Now 6 lakh 10 thousand quintal of paddy purchased in Kawardha district has been lifted through the society

    Out of the purchases made so far in Kawardha district, 6 lakh 10 thousand quintal paddy has been lifted from the society. Markfed is currently raising paddy in maximum capacity for the collection center. Due to less number of rice millers in the district and no rice picking by rice millers of other districts, daily purchases are being made. Only 40 percent of the paddy is being lifted from the society. Due to non-lifting of paddy from the society by the district administration, alternative paddy procurement locations have also been selected in the procurement centers and society-wise, which is being continuously monitored daily. It is the effort of the district administration that the farmers who have been issued tokens for daily, should buy their paddy before sunset on the same day. The collector said that till now, the district administration has received full cooperation in the system of farmer companions, farmer brothers and their representatives. Also appealed to get further cooperation.

  • Government struggling with gunny crisis, now Anandna will be the ruler

    There is a doubt about the gunny supply from the first day of purchase of paddy at the support price. The effect of the central government cutting the new gunny quota still remains. Fair price shopkeepers have also not returned the old gunny bags to Markfed and Food Department. Due to all these reasons, gunny bags are not able to reach the procurement centers in sufficient quantity.

    This has started to affect the purchase. There is a chaos in 128 procurement centers in the district. Due to shortage of gunny bags, the committee in-charge is reluctant to issue tokens to the farmers. They fear that the gunny bags were not received in time and the token holders reached the procurement center with paddy in a tractor, truck or metodor to sell the paddy. Considering the status of the dispute, the committee is issuing tokens to the farmers as per the availability of Bardana in-charge.

    Prior to the commencement of paddy purchase at the support price, the state government issued an order to the Food Department to withdraw the gunny bags supplied by the Civil Supplies Corporation to the fair price shops from April to October during the Corona transition period Was. In lieu of this, there was also talk of paying ration shopkeepers at the rate of 14 rupees per gunny. Following the directives of the government, the food department had issued a notice to the ration shopkeepers of the district asking them to calculate and return the old gunny bags. Till now the ration holders have not returned. Actually, during the Corona transition, the shopkeepers have sold the empty gunny bags in the market.

  • Bastar SDM suspended two government fair price shops

    Action has been taken to suspend two government fair price shops operating under development block Bastar for not depositing gunny bags as per the target given for paddy purchase. The government fair price shops of Rotma and Jharratrai have been suspended by Bastar Sub-Divisional Magistrate Shri Gokool Rawate with immediate effect. It is noteworthy that Chhattisgarh government is doing paddy procurement from registered farmers from December 01, for which new and old gunny bags are being used. As per the instructions of Collector Shri Rajat Bansal, to ensure continuous supply of gunny bags of Public Distribution System, the operators and sellers of government fair price shops have been directed in the past and instructed to deposit 100 percent gunny bags as per the allocation from April. went. Rotma and Jharatarai government has been temporarily attached to the Primitive Caste Service Cooperative Society till the next order, suspending with immediate effect the non-deposit of gunny bags by the fair price shops operators. Bastar subdivisional magistrate informed that so far over 2.15 lakhs of gunny bags have been collected in the development block Bastar through Markfed and the committee, from which paddy is being procured uninterruptedly. He said that any negligence related to paddy procurement will not be tolerated and if the government fair price shops do not deposit gunny bags as per the target, the suspension proceedings will continue further.