“We have deployed duty magistrates on the Haryana-UP border, along with police force, to check the arrival of paddy and PDS rice from other states in Karnal. The officials suspect the rice meant for the PDS could be delivered as custom milled rice (CMR) to the state. The arrival of paddy and rice keeps the officials of the district administration on toes every year. The duty magistrates, along with the police force, have been deployed round-the-clock at two nakas - Manglora and Shergarh Tapu - on the border.Īs per the officials, the step had been taken to check the arrival of the public distribution system (PDS) rice or paddy from other states in the district.Īccording to officials of the district administration, the PDS rice is recovered from rice mills every year, which is brought at a lower price from other states and used to adjust against the proxy procurement done with the help of fake gate passes. Admn official Tractor-trailers queue at the Karnal grain market on Thursday.ĭuring a raid by the Chief Minister (CM) flying squad, around 80,000 quintals of paddy, worth nearly Rs 16 crore, was found short at grain markets in Jundla. There should be random physical verification of the mills at regular intervals to verify the allotment of paddy and availability of stock. It was a challenging task for the authorities to keep a check on such people. Our officials are keeping an eye on every vehicle. We have deployed duty magistrates on the Haryana-UP border, along with police force, to check the arrival of paddy and PDS rice from other states in Karnal. Sunder Singh Kamboj, secretary, Karnal market committee, said there was an issue at gate number 4 due to a technical error, which was resolved later.Some of the farmers even went to the NH-44 to block it, but after an appeal by other farmers, they came back.They raised slogans against the government and demanded the authorities to issue gate passes with immediate effect.Farmers protested over the non-issuance of gate passes at one of the gates at the Karnal grain market on Thursday.With the unearthing of an alleged paddy procurement scam in four rice mills and the seizure of 1,424 bags of rice reportedly brought from Bihar in a rice mill in Jundla, the district administration has intensified the vigil at the Haryana-UP border.
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