Not responsible for paddy procurement: Rice millers

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, November 8

After facing allegations levelled by the opposition for procuring paddy at throwaway prices, state rice millers and dealers today cleared their stand and said they were not responsible for procurement. “We only process the paddy procured by the government and it is irrelevant to blame us for the price,” they said.

Jaipal Jain, officiating state president of the Haryana Millers and Dealers Association, said today that the government gave them paddy for making rice and that’s what they did. “The rate of the paddy is decided by the procurement agencies on behalf of the quality parameter fixed by the government,” he said.

Vinod Goyal, who was appointed officiating state general secretary of the association today, said they were not entitled to arranging rate for paddy. They were only the processors.