Badal asks officials to evolve mechanism for wheat procurement

In order to efficaciously monitor the smooth procurement of wheat at the ground level across the state, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked all the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to evolve a three tier mechanism for successful completion of this entire operation.
Disclosing this here, a spokesman of the Chief Minister's Office said that Badal had directed the DCs to ensure overall supervision of the procurement process in their concerned districts by randomly visiting the grain markets.
Likewise, he had asked the Deputy Commissioners to depute Sub Divisional Magistrates (SDMs) of their respective districts to personally visit the grain markets in their concerned Sub Divisions to monitor the ongoing procurement operation.

In the same manner in smaller or village level mandis, the Tehsildars/Naib Tehsildars have been asked to supervise the operations so as to ensure that farmers were not subjected to any sort of harassment.
As per this three tier mechanism these officers would personally visit the grain markets under their jurisdiction for monitoring the progress of ongoing wheat procurement on the daily basis so that this gigantic task could be accomplished in a hassle free, quick and smooth manner, he said.
These officers have been asked to make all out efforts to ensure smooth and prompt procurement of Wheat on one hand so as to facilitate the farmers, he said.

The Chief Minister had asked the DCs to direct the officers to ensure that the farmers do not have to face any hardship or inconvenience for the sale of their produce in the mandis.

Reiterating the firm commitment of the state government to lift every single grain of the farmers from the market during the ongoing procurement season, the Chief Minster said that the personal visit by these officers in grain markets would facilitate the farmers in selling their harvest without any sort of undue harassment besides reposing trust and confidence amongst the farmers.
Badal said that these officers should make personal interventions for ensuring that the procurement of the wheat was done in a smooth and effective manner.

"Every officer must be made accountable for the smooth procurement operations in grain markets under his jurisdiction so that farmers do not face any sort of problem in selling their harvest," he added.