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Karnal, December 26
Rice millers on Wednesday urged Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to give them relaxation of three months for delivering rice to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) after milling without any holding charges.
The CM was at the grain market here to interact with rice millers and arhtiyas. The government has fixed the deadline of March 30 for the complete delivery, after which it will take holding charges. The millers sought a deadline of June 30.
Hansraj Singla, state president of the Haryana Rice Millers’ and Dealers’ Association; Vinod Goel, senior vice-president of the association; and Vijay Thakkar, district president, Karnal Rice Millers’ Association, and others requested the CM to reduce the criteria for returning custom milled rice. They handed over a memorandum to the CM.
“Untimely rain has affected paddy quality. A miller who procures paddy has to return 67-kg rice per quintal to the FCI, but millers have poor quality grain, so we have requested the CM to relax the yield after milling to 64 kg per quintal. The UP Government has recently relaxed the norms and reduced it to 64-kg rice per quintal,” said Goel.
Besides, arhtiyas demanded the CM to give them ownership of 92 shops, which were allotted to them in 2002. Goel informed the CM that these shops were given for Rs 20.32 lakh each, but the price should have been Rs 16.3 lakh.
The CM assured them that all issues would be discussed with the authorities concerned soon. He asked them to come over to Chandigarh with documents pertaining to the issues. He refused to waive off the property tax being charged by the Karnal Municipal Corporation.
Reacting to a complaint regarding Rs 30 being charged from each vegetable vendor for setting up ‘rehri’ in the vegetable market, the CM asked the officials concerned to look into the issue.
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