Deputy CM visits procurement centre to review arrangements

Ambala, April 16

Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Thursday paid a surprise visit at the Shahzadpur grain market in Ambala to check the ongoing mustard purchase arrangements.

Procurement of mustard began in the state from April 15, while wheat’s procurement will commence from April 20.

Chautala assured the farmers that every single morsel of their foodgrain produced in the state would be procured in a hassle-free manner. He directed the officials involved in the procurement process to help facilitate the peasants in bringing their produce to the purchase centres.

The Deputy CM said in view of the Covid crisis, the number of purchase centres in the state had been increased from 67 to 162 so that the farmers wouldn’t have to travel too much for selling their produce.

Terming the opposition’s apprehensions on procurement as “unfounded and unjustified”, Chautala said Haryana was the only state to have begun the procurement of mustard crop on MSP. “They should explain why their party’s governments hadn’t yet begun with the procurement of mustard in Punjab and Rajasthan,” he said. — TNS