The district food administration on Sunday inspected 17 rice mills and recovered paddy, rice and kanki (broken rice) worth Rs 18.39 crore. Cases were also registered against eight rice mills for violating custom milling rule, informed district food officer.
According to official information, the raids were conducted in different rice mills on the directives of Collector Siddhartha Komal Singh Pardeshi. Action was also initiated against millers who had processed only 10 per cent of total paddy purchased on support price from farmers. In addition, the millers not doing custom milling of the paddy purchased on support price were also nailed.
The officers further said eight different teams of food department were dispatched on Sunday morning which inspected 17 rice mills of the district. The inspection started around 9 am and lasted till late evening hours. During the inspection, the food department team found that eight rice mills were not following rules.
In all, paddy worth Rs 12.62 crore weighing about 704 quintals, rice worth Rs 5.16 crore weighing 285 quintals and kanki worth Rs 13 lakh weighting 854 quintals were seized.