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The State Government has requested the Union Food and Public Distribution Ministry to nonstop the Food Corporation of India to procure 18 lakh metric tonne paddy implicit and supra the 53.73 lakh metric tonne assured during Kharif season.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy who called connected Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Pralhad Joshi successful New Delhi connected Thursday explained that though it was agreed that the FCI would procure 53.73 LMT earlier, the State Government had to procure 18 LMT additionally from farmers owing to the bumper crop. The Centre should truthful procure the further quantity allowing 10% brokens.
The Centre should let customized milling of 10 LMT of boiled atom pertaining to Rabi play (2024-25) with 5% brokens. Steps should besides beryllium initiated to widen the February 28 deadline acceptable for paddy cultivated during Kharif 2024-25 by 2 months.
The Chief Minister, who was accompanied by the Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, requested Mr. Pralhad Joshi to merchandise ₹1,468.94 crore dues of 2014-15 pending outgo to the State. The State Government bore the outgo pertaining to further levy successful 2014-15 mobilising the required magnitude done loans and the involvement connected this indebtedness crossed ₹2,000 crore till date.
He urged the Union Minister to instrumentality steps to merchandise ₹343.27 crore dues to Telangana connected relationship of proviso of further quantity of atom betwixt May 2021 to March 2022 nether the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana.
