Haryana Minister of State for Cooperation, Bikram Singh Yadav on Thursday directed the officers to make all the units of Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation limited (HAFED) online to get information about the actual position of a unit with a single click at its headquarters.
Presiding over a review meeting of activities of HAFED at Panchkula, Yadav also issued directions for starting Biometric Attendance System and for installing CCTV cameras in all its establishments.
Principal Secretary, Cooperation, Anurag Rastogi also issued directions to the officers to give suggestions for the improvement of units of HAFED based on their work experience at various places in the State and send them to the headquarters by January 4, next.
During the meeting, Managing Director, Cooperation, Sukriti likhi apprised the Minister about various e-governance initiatives taken in order to bring more transparency and efficiency in the functioning of HAFED. It was also informed that during the current Rabi season up to December 21, HAFED has arranged for 1.17 lakh metric tonnes of DAP and there is no shortage of DAP in the state. Besides this, HAFED has made available 2.67 lakh metric tonnes of urea during the current Rabi season up to December 21.
During the current Rabi season, HAFED procured 43 per cent of the total procurement of wheat in the state which is not only above its set target of 40 per cent, but also the highest among all procuring agencies in the state. HAFED also purchased 15.15 lakh metric tonnes of paddy during the current Kharif season which is the highest purchase made by the Federation.
To help growers of sunflower seeds, it has
procured 4,164 metric tonnes of sunflower seeds. It has also procured 4,352 metric tonnes of Bajra during the Kharif 2015-16.