Chhattisgarh Secretary for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department Topeshwar Verma on Sunday inspected the godown of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) at Rajnandgaon.
He inspected the stake plan, quality of rice deposited and rake point at godown. The quality of rice was found to be good during inspection.
He asked to lease out Food and Civil Supplies Corporation godown at Dongargarh to the FCI on temporary basis to facilitate rice millers to deposit the custom milled rice.
He asked the rice millers of the district to lift the paddy procured in support price and expedite custom milling. The milled rice should also be deposited on time.
Rajnandgaon had procured 6,02,269 tonnes of paddy on support price. A total of 1,34,195 tonnes of paddy has been lifted from the collection centres and 1,12,166 tonnes of paddy has been lifted by rice millers from the committees.
Against this, 18,700 tonnes of rice has been deposited by the rice millers with FCI and 12,370 tonnes with the Food and Civil Supplies Corporation.