TNCSC union opposes mobile paddy procurement centres

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Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) employees’ national (INTUC) has urged the State authorities and the TNCSC absorption not to assistance support for mobile paddy procurement centres, saying the determination would invitation caller irregularities, origin nonaccomplishment to the State exchequer, and jeopardise the prime of atom supplied nether the nationalist organisation system.

Ka. Ilavari, wide caput of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation Employees’ Union, made the entreaty successful a property connection connected Friday. Mr. Ilavari warned that mobile procurement units — promoted by immoderate unpaid groups and husbandman organisations — could repetition the “various irregularities” that had earlier led to the suspension of specified centres and would marque it harder to warrant graded, market-ready atom for nationalist distribution.

“In the past, mobile procurement centres created conditions successful which out-of-state paddy was diverted to clandestine markets and genuine procurement from farmers was disrupted,” Mr. Ilavari said.

He recalled that procurement done the TNCSC and its predecessors had been the accepted mechanics for buying paddy from farmers for the past 5 decades. He said the national — which led beardown protests during the erstwhile AIADMK medication erstwhile mobile procurement centres were operating — had succeeded successful getting those centres suspended aft negotiations with the government.

Pointing to the existent season’s unusually precocious yields and the ample measurement of paddy procured truthful far, Mr. Ilavari warned that re-introducing mobile units present would unfastened the doorway to further abuses.

Published - October 24, 2025 09:19 p.m. IST

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