Paddy scam: Haryana orders verification of paddy stocks

Haryana government today said it has ordered verification of paddy stocks of state procurement agencies after opposition parties alleged a scam in the crop's procurement.
"Haryana government has allotted 13 districts to Administrative Secretaries for supervising the physical verification of paddy stocks of state procurement agencies lying in the rice mills. The verification is to be completed in 20 days," an official spokesman said here.
"In deference to the demand of the opposition leaders, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had yesterday informed the Vidhan Sabha during the Winter Session that physical verification of paddy stocks would be carried out," he said.

He said that according to a letter addressed to all the Administrative Secretaries by the Chief Secretary D S Dhesi, the Deputy Commissioners concerned would depute at least one senior gazetted officer, one police officer and one or two officers of the procurement agency concerned in the team constituted for conducting physical verification.