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Telangana Govt sets Aug 31 deadline for millers to return processed rice
To ensure that the State government does not face losses due to delay in Custom Milling of Rice (CMR), the Civil Supplies Department has set a deadline of August 31 to millers, for processing of paddy procured during Rabi season.
In the past, the Civil Supplies Department (CSD) was incurring heavy losses due to delay by the millers in supply of processed rice to the department. Now, deadline is given to millers for supply of rice
Hyderabad: To ensure that the State government does not face losses due to delay in Custom Milling of Rice (CMR), the Civil Supplies Department has set a deadline of August 31 to millers, for processing of paddy procured during Rabi season.
If the millers fail to adhere to the deadline, then the Civil Supplies Department would be cutting fees by Rs 15 for raw rice and R 25 for boiled rice per each quintal. During the first two and half years, the delay in processing of paddy had cost the government Rs 1,200 crores in terms of interest to banks.
The department has directed the 'Enforcement Wing', to take necessary measures to conduct inspections on millers. The officials have already conducted inspections on rice mills and formulated a strategy to reach the target. The teams of the Enforcement Wing have been instructed to take pictures of the paddy arriving at a mill and also processed rice ready to be transported to
warehouses.
The Enforcement Wing officials will send reports to all the senior officials of CSD including Joint Collectors and District Supplying Officer. In addition, all the details, including paddy allocation, rice returned and processing fee are made online.
With an expectation of four times high yield during this Rabi, the department has targeted procuring 37 lakh metric tonnes of paddy from farmers. It has been decided to open more than 3000 paddy purchase centres across Telangana. In contrast, during the previous year, it had procured only 8.42 lakh tonnes through 1288 purchase centres.
“We shall be acting tough against the millers, who would cross the deadline of August 31, by cutting their processing fees,” said a senior official.
With an estimated turnover of Rs 10,000 crores, the Civil Supplies Department is engaged in cash credit from banks. Previously, the delay by millers has huge financial implications on the functioning of the department and Government’s exchequer.
“Since we were not able to repay the interest of the credit, it has jumped to Rs 1200 crores. In the new State, we have decided to act tough” added the official.
