After straightening the recalcitrant millers into surrendering the custom milled rice (CMR) due from them, the Civil Supplies department is facing an unexpected problem, as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is not providing sufficient storage space.
Citing this as the reason, the millers have sought extension of deadline up to September 30, for surrender of the CMR, instead of the earlier August 31.
Commissioner, Civil Supplies, C.V.Anand held a joint meeting with FCI representatives and rice millers on Wednesday, and requested the former to assign required storage space to the millers. Complaints pertaining to storage issues are coming mainly from Peddapalli, Jagityal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, and Nalgonda districts, he said, and brought it to their notice that the department will face losses if CMR submission is delayed.
This Rabi, the department has purchased 37.15 lakh Metric Tonnes of paddy from farmers and handed over to the rice millers for milling. For this, millers should surrender 26 lakh MTs of rice to the government by August 31. Till now 8.76 lakh MTs boiled and 44,000 MTs raw rice is surrendered to FCI, a note from the department said.
Rice millers expressed concern as the rice is stocked in lorry for days laying outside FCI godowns and getting wet due to rains.
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