Millers want cash security refunded

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 17

The Punjab Rice Millers Association has warned the state government to immediately release the security of Rs 5 lakh per rice mill of all those millers who have delivered the custom milling rice as per the contract made with the procurement agencies, otherwise they will be forced to protest.

Nakesh Jindal, press secretary of the association, said there are 3,700 rice millers in the state and a majority of them have completed the milling of paddy but their money is lying as security with the government. He said the millers deposited Rs 5 lakh every year with the Director, Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Punjab, as security while making an agreement with the government for custom milling of paddy and they have to wait for months for its refund, even after completing the process. — OC