Solan APMC gets PM’s award

Tribune News Service

Solan, April 21

The Solan-based Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) was today honoured with the Prime Minister’s award for the successful implementation of the e-National Agriculture Market (NAM) scheme.

The Deputy Commissioner, Rakesh Kanwar, received the award.

This e-Nam is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified market for agriculture commodities. It provides a single window service for all APMC-related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals, prices, buy and sell trade offers, provisions to respond to trade offers, among other crucial services, said the DC.

This scheme was launched by the PM on April 14 last year on a pilot basis and Solan was among the few mandis which was selected for its implementation in the first phase. Trading in tomatoes, peas and apples had been started through the e-NAM portal after Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh inaugurated its e-portal on May 8 last year.