The State Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal for adoption of a Food and Procurement Policy for kharif marketing season 2016-16 to procure 100-per cent balance paddy and other crops from farmers so that distress sale can be fully checked.
“The policy ensures 100 per cent balance crop procurement from farmers, and thereby distress sale can be checked,” said Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Sanjay Kumar Dasburma.
He said the Government has targeted to procure
The State Government set a target to procure 30 lakh metric tpnnes of rice this year. The minimum support price for common paddy was increased to Rs 1,470 and for Grad A paddy to Rs 1,510, Dasburma said. He said the millers who have returned 100 per cent rice last year would be given paddy for milling.
A proposal to write off arrears up to Rs 5,000 relating to the repealed OST Act, 1947 and OAST Act, 1975 was approved. The State Government would loss Rs 4.36 crore.
To address the water supply problem in Brahampur, a long term project namely “Improvement of Water Supply to Greater Brahmapur including O &M for five years and including charges for five years” would be taken up at Rs 519.81 crore. The cabinet approved this proposal.
A proposal to construct a District Headquarters
Hospital with 100-bedded Mother-Child Hospital
on Trunkey basis at Rs 110,16,08,800 was approved.
The Cabinet gave its nod for construction of a Hl Bridge over river Mahanadi on Athamallik-Dholpur road at the lowest tender of Rs 1,68.91 crore. The bridge would link Boudh and Angul directly.
The “Odisha Secretariat Data Entry Operators (Method of Recruitment and Condition) Amendment Rules 2016 would come uo to do away with technical viva voce recruitment of Data Entry Operators.
The Cabinet extended period of VAT relaxation from 5 per cent to 1 per cent on all kinds of dals for a period of three months from October 1 to December 12, 2016.
The Cabinet too approved five numbers of Rural Piped Water projects in Baleswar, Bhadrak, Puri, Keojhar and Balangiri, to be undertaken by the larsen and Tubro ltd at Rs 327,30 crore.
Besides, the Cabinet approved a draft Appropriation Bill to be presented to the State Assembly for regularisation of excess expenditure of Rs 5,80,27,64,700 incurred by different departments between 2010-11 and 2011-12, which was pointed out by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.