Punjab Government on Thursday released payments worth Rs 1,029 crore to the farmers for the wheat procured during the ongoing Rabi marketing season.
“All transactions have been electronically documented and payments have been credited to the accounts of the commission agents or the farmers,” said an official spokesperson of the government.
Spokesperson said that the instructions have been given to all the procurement agencies to expedite the lifting process.
Meanwhile, the officers of the state Food and Civil Supplies Department along with the local administration have also been asked to visit grain markets and purchase centres under their jurisdiction to oversee the ongoing wheat procurement operations and to listen to the grievances of farmers, commission agents and others and solve them instantaneously.
It may be recalled that the state government released payments worth Rs 3,248 to the farmers to clear their dues.