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The Vigilance and Enforcement Department has concluded a three-day Statewide programme of astonishment inspections astatine fabric procurement centres and ginning mills, aimed astatine ensuring transparency successful procurement and safeguarding farmers’ welfare.
The inspections were carried retired from December 16-18 successful coordination with the Cotton Corporation of India, Legal Metrology Department and Agriculture Marketing Department. Officials said that the workout was intended to guarantee that farmers person MSP and irregularities successful fabric procurement process tin beryllium curbed.
More than 65 ginning mills and procurement centres were inspected crossed large cotton-growing districts, including Adilabad, Khammam, Nalgonda, Warangal, Vikarabad, Ranga Reddy, Sangareddy, Nagarkurnool and Narayanpet. During the inspections, teams verified weighbridge certifications, moisture meters, CCTV surveillance systems with information backup ranging from 15 to 120 days, occurrence information licences and the implementation of the Kapas Kisan mobile application.
Several violations were detected, starring to cases being registered nether the Legal Metrology Act. Action was initiated against fabric mills successful Yadadri Bhongir territory astatine Mothkur and successful Nalgonda territory astatine Chinthapally for utilizing substandard oregon unsealed weighbridges. In Sangareddy district, cases were booked against mills for failing to support modular 20 kilogram trial weights, portion a good of ₹85,000 was imposed connected a mill successful Rangareddy territory for weighbridge variations.
Officials besides observed a important deficiency of technological instruments astatine respective mills for measuring staple magnitude and micronaire values successful existent time. Cotton samples were drawn from heaps astatine mills successful areas specified arsenic Warangal and the erstwhile Mahabubnagar portion and sent to specialised laboratories for method verification of ginning percent and quality. While CCTV cameras were recovered to beryllium installed astatine astir locations, respective mills lacked capable information backup facilities.
Detailed inspection reports, on with recommendations for upgrading method instrumentality astatine mills, are being submitted to the authorities for further action. The nationalist has been urged to study immoderate irregularities oregon misuse of authorities funds oregon resources to the V&E Department done the toll-free fig 14432.
