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UP to invoke NSA on urea black marketers, law agencies conduct 7,500 raids

In kharif season 2020, UP has urea inventory of 2.73 million tonnes

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UP had so far disbursed 2.04 MT of urea against 1.51 MT of the commodity in the corresponding period last kharif cycle

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
The Uttar Pradesh government will invoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against those indulging in the black marketing of urea.

Presiding over a review meeting here on Wednesday, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said his government was fully committed to facilitating easy availability of fertilisers and other agricultural inputs to farmers.

“The state government will act tough against elements, who are against the interests of farmers and are black marketing fertilisers,” he said while instructing officials to invoke the NSA in such cases.

Meanwhile, the state enforcement agencies have been conducting raids at the premises of fertiliser dealers across UP