Constitution of Committee for suitable Procurement Policy of essential commodities

GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA

ABSTRACT

CAF&CS Department – Constitution of Committee for suitable Procurement

Policy of essential commodities – Orders – Issued.

CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLIES (CS.I-CCS) DEPARTMENT

G.O.RT.No. 79 Dated:21 -07-2015

Read:

F.No. 6(1)/2007-Py.III, Government of India, Ministry of

Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Department of Food

& Public Distribution, dated 20th February, 2015.

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ORDER

           In the reference read above the Govt. of India informed that there shall

be no (zero) levy on rice from the millers and dealers from Kharif Marketing

Season (KMS) 2015-16.

2. The Commissioner of Civil Supplies informed that the procurement

operations were done till KMS 2014-15 through PACS, IKP Groups and DCMSs.

At the micro level, none of these agencies had the requisite technical,

accounting or logistical expertise. Further, the IKP Groups decided to withdraw

from procurement operations from KMS 2015-16. Government of India had

prepared a draft proposal for Public-Private-Partnership under which all the

responsibilities right from procurement of Paddy, Milling, storage and

transportation to buffer godowns / MLS points, will be taken up by private

parties, selected on the basis of a comprehensive tender process. Under this

scheme, purchase centres will be maintained by professional organisations,

and the expenditure will be borne by them without any need for budgetary

support.

3. The Government hereby order to constitute a Committee to consider all

the matters connected with the formulation of a suitable procurement policy

and for deciding the pricing and quality norms. The committee should also

examine an alternative arrangement in case tenders could not be finalised in

time.

4. The composition of the Committee shall be

1. Sri Vinod Kumar Agrawal, IAS, - Chairman

Prl.Secretary to Govt

Registration & Stamps

Revenue Department

2. Dr. Rajat Kumar, IAS, - Member – Convener

CCS & EO Secretary to Govt.,

CAF&CS Department

3. Sri C. Partha Sarathi, IAS, - Member

Secretary to Govt.,

Agriculture and Marketing Dept.

4. Sri N. Sivasankar - Member

Secretary to Govt., Finance

5. Dr. A Sarath, IAS, - Member

Director, Marketing

5. The Committee shall also examine the issue pertaining to the various

procedures being followed by the Civil Supplies Corporation in procuring the

Committees like Redgram dal, Sugar etc., and the option for procuring the

commodities from industries within Telangana in order to encourage local

industries and accordingly to make specific recommendations.

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF TELANGANA)

                                                                    RAJAT KUMAR

                                             EX- OFFICIO SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT