Wheat procurement from April 1

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, March 7

The Haryana Government has decided to start procurement of wheat from April 1, so that farmers do not have to stock the early crop. The procurement of wheat was started on April 10 last year. About 400 small and big procurement centres will be set up for the procurement of wheat.

While addressing a press conference, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said Haryana is the only state in the country where a total of six crops — wheat, mustard, pulses, gram, sunflower, and barley — are purchased at the minimum support price (MSP). For the first time in the state, barley crop would be procured on the MSP and for this seven mandis were earmarked.

He said Haryana would be the first state in the history of the country where the payment for the crop would reach the farmer in his own bank account or in the account of the arthiya within 48 hours of submitting the J-Form.

He said so far 7.25 lakh farmers of the state had registered themselves on the Meri Fasal Mera Byora portal for the sale of wheat. Not only this, 1.03 lakh farmers of neighbouring states had also registered themselves on the portal.

He claimed that Haryana was the first state in the country to successfully complete the first batch of Phase-III of the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana. In this batch, 690-km length of rural roads came under Haryana at a cost of Rs 383.58 crore. Apart from this, Haryana became the first state in the country to achieve another historic success under the same scheme as it got the approval for the Phase-II just two days ago on March 5, 2021. This includes getting approval for 120 roads to be built at a cost of about Rs 550 crore. He said the total length of these roads sanctioned for 14 districts of the state was 1,217 km.

He asserted that any gram sabha which did not want liquor vends to open in its village, could pass the proposal and send it to the Haryana government through its Deputy Commissioner by March 15, 2021.Terming 75 reservation for Haryanavis in private sector as “constitutionally valid”, he stated that efforts were being made to starts its implementation by next month.