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The Tamil Nadu Food and Civil Supplies Minister R. Sakkarapani has said that 21 teams person been formed to expedite paddy procurement successful Delta region.
The Minister told presspersons astatine Puthur adjacent present connected Thursday that 5 teams headed by officials successful the cadre of wide managers, 4 teams headed by managers, and 12 teams led by zonal managers person been formed.
Apart from forming the teams, efforts person been made to get paddy dryers for deployment successful nonstop acquisition centres and 25 specified machines would beryllium made disposable astatine assorted DPCs successful Thanjavur district.
Stating that 2.65 crore gunny bags had been procured by the Tamil Nadu Food and Civil Supplies Corporation, the Minister said a squad of officials had been sent to West Bengal for procurement of gunny bags to augment their availability astatine DPCs.
Claiming that the ‘kuruvai’ cultivation country had been accrued to 6.31 lakh acres this play from 3.87 lakh acres past season, helium said that procured paddy being moved to different districts done much than 12 goods trains and implicit 4,000 goods carriers by road. In all, 35,000 tonnes of paddy was being moved to different districts and hulling units from the Delta region, helium said.
The Food Minister inspected the unfastened retention installation created precocious astatine Paruthiyappar temple crushed adjacent Puthur.
Collector praised
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation AITUC Workers Union commended the efforts taken by the Thanjavur District Collector for question of paddy bags from the nonstop acquisition centres (DPC).
In a connection connected Thursday, Union’s State wide caput C.Chandrakumar said the contented of paddy piling up astatine the DPCs was brought to the announcement of Collector B. Priyanka Pankajam. Subsequently, she visited the DPCs.
After holding discussions with the Corporation officials, the Collector made arrangements for opening of unfastened retention (CAP storage) points successful capable numbers and to determination the procured paddy for hulling straight from the DPCs.
Since the inaugural would effect successful normalisation of paddy procurement process astatine the DPCs successful astir 5 to six days, the national commended the Collector for her initiatives, the merchandise added.
