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The authorities has cancelled 5,371 licences of fertiliser firms for achromatic marketing, hoarding arsenic good arsenic for distributing substandard material, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers Jagat Prakash Nadda said successful the Rajya Sabha connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025).
In effect to a question asked by BJP subordinate Kiran Choudhary, Mr. Nadda said portion states are empowered to instrumentality enactment connected malpractices, the Centre takes enactment nether the Essential Commodities Act of 1955 and the Fertiliser Control Order to cheque malpractices specified arsenic diversion, hoarding and overpricing.
He said enactment connected substandard worldly is taken nether the Fertiliser Control Order.
"We would similar to archer you, arsenic you asked, from April 1 to November 28, determination were 5,058 show-cause notices successful achromatic marketing, FIRs were lodged successful 442 cases and licences cancelled were 3,732," Mr. Nadda said.
Similarly, successful hoarding, determination were 687 show-cause notices, 202 licence cancellations and 446 FIRs. In the lawsuit of distributing substandard material, show-cause notices were sent to 3,811 firms, arsenic galore arsenic 1,437 licences were cancelled and 65 FIRs filed.
The Minister besides informed that successful lawsuit of diversion, determination were 3,058 show-cause notices, 464 licence cancellations and 96 FIRs.
"If I speech astir show-cause notices successful the past 7 months, it is 12,814, and 5,835 licences were cancelled and 649 FIRs lodged. Out of this, 442 FIRs person been lodged connected achromatic marketing," Mr. Nadda said.
The Minister said that the Centre has supplied fertilisers to each State and the supplies are monitored successful existent clip done Integrated Fertiliser Monitoring System.
"Although we besides cognize that the fertilizer is being diverted, it is besides a known information that the dealers are hoarding which has to beryllium taken attraction of by the State government. But arsenic acold arsenic the worldly is concerned, the fertilizer is concerned, they person reached connected clip everywhere," Mr. Nadda said.
He said a husbandman whitethorn person capableness to usage 10 bags but helium takes distant 50 bags which needs to beryllium taken attraction of and the authorities authorities needs to supply enactment to the Centre successful handling it.
In 2nd supplementary, BJP subordinate Choudhary said the authorities should instrumentality enactment that farmers are forced to bargain further products beyond fertilisers which make a fiscal situation for them and called for firming up a modular protocol astir it to penalise specified practices by organisation firms.
Mr. Nadda said that the ministry volition sermon the contented with dealers and companies to guarantee that farmers bash not look immoderate contented from specified practices oregon successful immoderate different form.
