CHANDIGARH: For the first time, amid Covid, all rice delivery operations in Punjab, including allotment, registration and physical verification of rice mills through videos, will be undertaken online, under the new Punjab Custom Milling Policy for Paddy for Kharif 2020-21.
To ensure smooth paddy procurement, the state government has decided to launch a dedicated portal – www.anaajkharid.in, the way for which was paved on Tuesday by the state cabinet, which approved the new policy, aimed at ensuring seamless milling of paddy and delivery of rice into the central pool from more than 4150 mills operating in the state.
The procurement operations – from allotment of mills, their registration, application of release order, deposit of fee and security besides the monitoring of stocks, will be done online now on a continuous basis, according to an official spokesperson.
All the state procuring agencies- PUNGRAIN, MARKFED, PUNSUP, Punjab State Warehousing Corporation (PSWC) including Food Corporation of India and the rice millers as well as all other stakeholders will operate and interact on the website, with the department of food, civil supplies acting as the nodal department.
Under the policy, the sole criterion for allotment of free paddy to mills this season would be the miller's performance in the previous year, and an additional percentage-wise incentive would be provided to mills as per their date of delivery of rice.
To tackle the issue of moisture content, the policy stipulates compulsory installation of dryer and sortex for a new mill and/or in case of enhancement of capacity.
The state is expected to procure 170 lakh MTs of paddy during Kharif season beginning October 1, with total area under paddy sowing this year at 26.60 lakh hectares, down from 29.20 Lakh hectares the previous season in line with the state’s crop diversification efforts. The target was to complete the Custom Milling of Paddy, thereby delivering all due rice to Food Corporation of India, by March 31, 2021.
To ensure smooth paddy procurement, the state government has decided to launch a dedicated portal – www.anaajkharid.in, the way for which was paved on Tuesday by the state cabinet, which approved the new policy, aimed at ensuring seamless milling of paddy and delivery of rice into the central pool from more than 4150 mills operating in the state.
The procurement operations – from allotment of mills, their registration, application of release order, deposit of fee and security besides the monitoring of stocks, will be done online now on a continuous basis, according to an official spokesperson.
All the state procuring agencies- PUNGRAIN, MARKFED, PUNSUP, Punjab State Warehousing Corporation (PSWC) including Food Corporation of India and the rice millers as well as all other stakeholders will operate and interact on the website, with the department of food, civil supplies acting as the nodal department.
Under the policy, the sole criterion for allotment of free paddy to mills this season would be the miller's performance in the previous year, and an additional percentage-wise incentive would be provided to mills as per their date of delivery of rice.
To tackle the issue of moisture content, the policy stipulates compulsory installation of dryer and sortex for a new mill and/or in case of enhancement of capacity.
The state is expected to procure 170 lakh MTs of paddy during Kharif season beginning October 1, with total area under paddy sowing this year at 26.60 lakh hectares, down from 29.20 Lakh hectares the previous season in line with the state’s crop diversification efforts. The target was to complete the Custom Milling of Paddy, thereby delivering all due rice to Food Corporation of India, by March 31, 2021.
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