Millers warned against stealing, diverting paddy

Although most rice millers are following rules some millers are still diverting and stealing paddy, Civil Supplies Commissioner DS Chauhan said.
The Commissioner said that if paddy is diverted to other places strong action would be taken including surveillance of the grain depots of rice millers. He said that criminal cases were registered against 11 people in four days and many were arrested.
The Commissioner said the Civil Supplies Department and Corporation had said that it has been allocating paddy to millers in a completely transparent systematic and performance-based method, based on milling capacity. The allocation system has been streamlined, so that genuine millers are allocated paddy without any issues and defaulters are not given paddy.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Commissioner said that the Rice Millers Association was told that any pilferage or diversion of government paddy will be viewed seriously and the Association has also promised that, henceforth, there will not be any pilferage.
Requests were also made to speed up paddy milling and delivery of Custom Milled Rice (CMR) so that both the Corporation and millers can avoid the interest burden.
He said that any paddy pilferage or diversion will be viewed very seriously by the Department and strong action will be taken against such rice millers. A drive has been started by the enforcement wing of the Corporation to check paddy stocks with rice millers and 11 criminal cases have been registered in the last four days and some arrests were also made.
The drive will be continued and pilferage will not be permitted at any cost, he said.
He said the department once again appeals to rice millers not to engage in such acts and to deliver custom milled rice on time.