CCI starts buying cotton in Dabwali

Chandigarh, December 2

Less than a month after Congress MLA Amit Sihag raised in the Assembly the matter of a closed centre of the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) in his constituency Dabwali, the CCI on Monday opened the centre and began the purchase of cotton.

This will ensure that farmers will get minimum support price (MSP) of Rs5,450 per quintal for their produce against the market rate of about Rs5,000.

Sihag thanked Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for ensuring that the opening of CCI’s centre in Dabwali. “The state government should have taken the decision earlier,” he said.

During his first speech in the Vidhan Sabha, the MLA highlighted the matter of drug addiction in his constituency and hoped that this would be addressed.

Sihag alleged that a large number of home guards had been removed from their jobs. He suggested that home guards could be deployed in drug-affected villages. — TNS