Dept changes delivery plan of milled rice

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, May 19

The Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has postponed the delivery schedule of custom-milled rice (CMR) by a month, acceding to the demand of rice millers. District Food and Supplies Controller (DFSC) Anil Kumar has confirmed this. 

This means, the first tranche of 20 per cent of the CMR was to be delivered to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) by December 2018, the next 20 per cent by January, the next 20 per cent by February, and remaining 25 per cent and 15 per cent by March and April, respectively.

The department has also accepted the demand for reimbursing or adjusting the holding charges imposed on rice millers for the delay in delivering the CMR. It has issued directions to procurement agencies in this regard.

“A delegation of rice millers had approached CM Manohar Lal Khattar recently, requesting him to waive holding charges imposed in November as they could not deliver the CMR owing to several matters,” said Vinod Goel, senior vice-president, Haryana Rice Millers and Dealers Association.