Rahul Tiwari, Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana presiding over a meeting of concerned officers to review the arrangement of wheat procurement at Bachat Bhawan at Ludhiana on Monday.
City Air News photo: Mandeep Kumar Verma
Ludhiana, April 1, 2013: Rahul Tiwari Deputy Commissioner has directed all the SDMs and heads of all the procurement agencies to complete all the arrangements for the smooth and hassle free procurement of wheat in coming procurement season starting from April 1 in all Mandis in district, so that no farmer faces any problem to sell his produce.
Deputy Commissioner was presiding over a meeting of concerned Officers to review the arrangement of wheat procurement at Bachat Bhawan here on Monday.
Tiwari said that 102 purchase centers have been set up in Ludhiana district. He directed all the agencies to depute the required staff in all mandis of district at the earliest. He asked the SDMs to personally visit the Mandis in their area and give final touches to the arrangements. He also asked SDMs to depute a Gazetted Officer for every Mandi and these Officers will check the mandis daily.
Tiwari asked the DMO and Secretaries of all Market Committees to ensure the proper cleanliness in mandis, set up washrooms, make arrangement of drinking water, electricity and stand by arrangements of generator for power cleaners. He told the DMO to make final checking of power cleaners and tarpaulins with the Ahrtyas in all Mandis.
Deputy Commissioner asked the DMO and representatives of Ahrtiyas association to educate the farmers to harvest their crop only on proper maturity and bring dry and clean crop in the mandis, so that they do not face any problem in selling their crop. He also appealed to the farmers to restrain from harvesting the immature wheat and not to operate harvest combine in night in the field.
Tiwari informed that PUNGRAIN would purchase 19.06 %, MARKFED 20.01%, PUNSUP 19.55%, WAREHOUSE 11.50%, PUNJAB AGRO 8.90%, and FCI 20.98% of the produce.in their area and give . He directed all the agencies to depute the required s
Raj Kumar Bhalla president of Ahrtiyas Union said that procurement agencies had not given back Bardana (gunny bags) used by Aarhtiyas and on this, the Deputy Commissioner directed all the DM's of the agencies to sort out the problems of Aarhtiyas immediately.
Among others who were present in the meeting Madam Neeru Katyal ADC (G), Rishipal Singh ADC (D), Lavkesh DFSC ( W), Sona Thind DFSC ( E) Ajay Sood SDM (East), Kuljitpal Singh SDM (West), Ghanshayam Thorri SDM Samrala, Anand Saggar Sharma SDM Khanna, Mohinder pal Gupta SDM Payal, Gurmeet Singh SDM Jagroan, District Mandi Officer NarinderPal Singh Tiwana and the DMs of all the procurement agencies.