Madhya Pradesh Transport Minister Bhupendra Singh here on Monday announced in the Assembly that his department would launch a campaign across the State for re-registration or disposing of vehicles that are more than 15 years old.
Sudarshan Gupta (ruling Bharatiya Janata Party) raised the issue of pollution being caused by expired vehicles in the State's commercial capital Indore through a calling attention notice.
In his reply, Singh said there were 1,32,417 public transport vehicles and 11,71,924 non-public transport vehicles that were registered with the Regional Transport Office, Indore. Although 84,335 non-public transport vehicles were more than 15 years old, only 22,463 had renewed their registration.
Madhya Pradesh Food Minister Vijay Shah on Monday informed the Assembly that the Food Commissioner will inquire into the alleged irregularities in wheat procurement at a primary agriculture cooperative credit society at Bhind district's Vaishpura.
Raising the issue during Question Hour, Govind Singh of the Congress said some peasants have been falsely implicated for selling more wheat at the cooperative society than they were eligible. He demanded that guilty officials be punished and the whole matter be inquired into by a senior official.
In his reply, Shah admitted that complaints were received against 21 farmers for selling more wheat than they were eligible.
The Bhind Collector has been asked to examine the matter and the collection of bonus from farmers has been withheld till that time.
He assured the member that the Food Commissioner would look into the matter and take stern action against guilty within seven days.