BHubaneswar: BJD on Tuesday installed pressure on the Government of NDA on issues such as the delay in food subsidies (procurement of rice), non-lifting surplus rice and short supply of burlap bags to the country.
While party workers held Dharna near the Food Corporation of India (FCI) Godown in all states to suppress their demands, the BJD parliament met with the Minister of Food and Public Distribution Pikush Goyal in New Delhi to discuss these issues.
“Paddy Procurement Operations Under MSP is a task in the central domain.
To extend the price of minimum support prices to remote areas, far thrown and inaccessible, the state government took over the responsibility of rice procurement from farmers in 2003-04,” said a memorandum delivered by MPS BJD to Goyal.
In the delay in releasing food subsidies to the state, MPS BJD said according to the MoU with the center, there must be zero financial obligations to the state government relating to valuables and procurement of rice which will be borne by the center.
“The anticipated costs (for released by the rice procurement center) must be released in the form of advance subsidies at a level of 90% of acceptable claims in the first month of each quarter.
State government or state civilian inventory company must be paid while temporary subsidies after reducing the number of follow-up However, the release of advance subsidies and temporarily for irregular Odisha, “said BJD member Rajya Sabha Sujojeet Kumar.
BJD claims that food subsidies worth 6,500 crore are delayed against the center.
The party also looked for wobbly intervention over non-lifting rice surplus from Odisha by FCI.
“Paddy obtained by the state government is ground into rice through private and rice factories distributed under various social security schemes.
According to the MoU, a surplus of rice stock, which exceeds the allocation that supports the welfare scheme, submitted to the FCI.
Despite the procurement of rice has increased for many years Year, the evacuation of rice by the FCI has not witnessed growth, “Kumar said.
BJD raises pressure on the problem of the center of farmers
