Food Minister continues inspection of direct purchase centres in delta districts

Food and Civil Supplies Minister R. Sakkarapani continued to inspect nonstop acquisition centres (DPCs) successful the Delta districts for the 2nd consecutive time connected Friday.

The Minister’s sojourn comes amidst complaints implicit sluggish question of paddy from the DPCs to godowns. Mr. Sakkarapani visited assorted DPCs successful Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur districts connected Friday and verified the procurement process. He instructed the officials to determination the paddy procured from farmers to godowns without hold and rectify complaints, if any, aired by farmers.

Speaking astatine a reappraisal gathering with officials successful Nagapattinam, Mr. Sakkarapani said that 41,062 tonnes of paddy had been procured from farmers done the 117 DPCs during the kharif play successful Nagapattinam territory truthful far. Of this, 26,713 tonnes of paddy had been moved to godowns. About ₹87.74 crore had been paid to 6,300 farmers for the paddy procured. Last year, lone 23 DPCs were opened and conscionable 5,440 tonnes procured during the kuruvai season.

Earlier, Mr. Sakkarapani, accompanied by Satyabrata Sahoo, Principal Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies, A. Annadurai, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation, and P. Akash, District Collector, inspected the operations of DPCs astatine Thirupoondi West and Seeyathamangai, according to an authoritative property release.