Big fraud in paddy purchase in Jabalpur, more than one lakh bad sacks

Krishanthini
Every day irregularities in paddy procurement are being exposed in jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. On tuesday (January 9), the team of Food and Civil Supplies Department seized 1.25 lakh bags of spoiled paddy in two warehouses. During sampling, paddy mix was found kept in many sacks in both the warehouses, while non-FAQ paddy was found kept in many sacks. The surprising thing is that both the warehouses did not even get permission to purchase paddy. Despite this, farmers' paddy was found kept in government gunny bags in their warehouse.


The team of officers and surveyors sent from bhopal by the Food and Civil Supplies Department, in the presence of SDM abhishek Singh, took samples of paddy kept inside the two warehouses located in Shahpura, where a large quantity of paddy was found stored despite not making a procurement center. Went. In-charge district Supply Controller CS Jadaun said that on the instructions of collector Deepak Saxena, the team of officers and surveyors have taken samples of paddy kept in stacking inside Pramod Kurmi ware house and Balraj ware house located in Khamdehi under Shahpura tehsil.


Strict action will be taken after the sample report comes

He told that paddy was stacked in 76 thousand sacks in Pramod Kurmi warehouse. Similarly, stacking of paddy in 48 thousand sacks has been done in Balram Warehouse. According to in-charge district Supply Controller Jadaun, during the sampling, paddy mix was found kept in many sacks in both the warehouses. Non-FAQ paddy was found kept in many sacks. He said that if non-standard paddy is found in the test report of the paddy samples taken by the surveyors or any serious irregularity is found, then strict action will be taken against the warehouse operators. FIR can also be lodged against them.


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