The Raipgarh district administration has set an ambitious target of collecting 1.46 lakh sacks of tendu leaves from the district this year.
District Collector Mukesh Bansal has also warned the officials involved in the tendu leaves collection with serious punishment in case of any kind of lapses in efforts of achieving the target.
The officials were directed to ensure special stress on quality saying “there would be zero tolerance when it comes to quality”.
He also instructed the officials to ensure that those who are involved in tendu leaf collection should be given their wages in time, that too, through account payee cheques.
The entire processes of collection of leaves and distribution of payment to workers, the Collector said should be transparent and warned of action against dereliction of duty.
Each bundle will have 50 leaves and one sack will have quantity of 1,000 bundles to ensure quality.
He also directed to set up a joint monitoring team consisting sub-divisional officer revenue and forest to ensure that nothing goes wrong in the tendu leaves collection.