It is almost final. The FCI will procure paddy from the farmers. Palamu administration is in touch with Ranchi and Delhi over paddy procurement issue.
Stating this at his late afternoon press conference held on Friday DC, Palamu, Shantanu Kumar Agrahari said that 13 paddy procurement centres have been located and identified and FCI will do the paddy procurement.
He said the district administration is all determined to ensure a hassle free paddy business to the farmers. He said more than 6,000 farmers have got themselves registered for their paddy sale.
Paddy procurement goes slow for want of bags a problem that plagues paddy procurement centres every year, to which the DC said all efforts are on to ensure a smooth procurement of paddy and dearth of bags will not be allowed to take place.
Chief minister Hemant Soren in his very first Cabinet meeting had asked the DCs to update payment of wages to Aaganwadi sewikas and sahayeekas to which Agrahari said 2,515 sewikas and 2,255 sahayikas have been paid their wages now till October and billing for November and December is in full swing.
CM had asked for updating of all 8 types of pension about which DC said 40,397 pensioners have got their pension till October 2019. He said 106 new applications came in for pension our Tuesday camp held to gauge the pension scenario.
He said 375 pensioners have been found dead and against this vacancy the new aspirants will be inducted for which we have already got 106 new applications in our just one camp and we expect this number to rise further once the weather condition here improves and old people begin to visit our camps which are to be held on Tuesday and Thursday.
The DC said administration had detected 1,209 such pension accounts, which were lying non functional but now out of this 507 pension accounts have been put in order and the beneficiaries will now have no problem at all.
About vacancies at the aagan badi front administration has found 80 vacancies for sewikas and 33 for sahayeekas.
Agrahari said block officials have been asked to prepare rosters for holding aam sabhas which is a must for filling these vacancies as it is the aam sabha that gives the recommendation for these two human resources sewiakas and sahayikas.
For the fitness freaks a public gym is being given a touch of beauty situated on the bank of the river Koyal added DC. Similarly a state of the art badminton court is coming up for youths to shuttle the corks. Community fire is available at 172 places in Palamau for which COs have been asked to have heavy logs of wood from the forest corporation here.
Reminded that logs of wood are not that enormous to keep it burning for hours DC said “Let me just now ask COs to see that heavy logs of wood are used for community fire.”
About blanket distribution he said, “We have so far distributed 66, 168 blankets among the poor which this winter is nearly 11,000 more.”