Purchase of damaged paddy by the A.P. State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd with discolouration or damage upto 10%

GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

ABSTRACT

Civil Supplies- Damage of paddy due to cyclonic storm and heavy rains in

November, 2015 in the rain affected districts – Purchase of damaged

paddy by the A.P. State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd with discolouration

or damage upto 10%. – Orders – Issued.

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

G.O.Ms. No.26 Dated:13.12.2015

Read the following:

1. Commissioner of Civil Supplies Lr.No.Proc.I/447/2015, Dt. 19.11.2015

2. Joint Commissioner(S&R), M/o CA, F&PD, D/o F&PD.,

Govt.Of India New Delhi, Lr.No.8-8/2015-S&I, Dt.08.12.2015.

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O R D E R:

                    In the reference 1st read above, the Commissioner of Civil

Supplies has informed that due to a cyclonic storm followed by heavy

rains during 15th to 17th November 2015, major damage to the standing

paddy crop and harvested paddy was reported in the districts of East

Godavari, West Godavari and Krishna. The paddy crop was inundated in

the flood water causing shattering of the grains and discoloration. As per

the MSP norms, FAQ paddy alone has to be procured by the State

Agency- the APSCSCL. Unless FAQ norms are relaxed by GOI, the State

Agency cannot procure discoloured paddy. The GOI was requested to

relax the specifications for purchase of paddy and rice.

2. In the reference read 2nd above, based on the report of Joint team,

the Govt. of India have permitted for procurement of paddy and Rice with

relaxations in FAQ specifications as detailed below:

Paddy:

Damaged, Discolored, Sprouted & Weevilled grains upto 10% against the existing limit of 5% subject to the condition that damaged, sprouted, & weevilled grains should not exceed 5% with full value cut.

Rice:

Refraction     Limit under Uniform Specification         Proposed Relaxed Limit

Damaged /

Slightly

damaged

grains                                     3%                                                       4%

Discolored Grains   3%                                                       5%

Broken Grains                     25%                                                     30%

3. After careful consideration of the matter and to mitigate the

hardship to the farmers and to protect them from distress sale, the

Government hereby order that the APSCSCL shall purchase the rain

affected paddy with damaged, discolored, sprouted, and weevilled grains

upto 10% without value cut by paying full MSP to the farmers, subject to

the condition that damaged, sprouted, & weevilled grains should not

exceed 5%.

4. It is further ordered that the above relaxations shall be restricted to

the proportion of affected paddy to the tune of 2.37 lakh tons in East

Godavari district and 2.59 lakh tons in West Godavari district, total 4.96

lakh tons only. The relaxations are applicable for kharif crop only. The

resultant CMR milled out of the 4.96 lakh tons of affected paddy should

not exceed the relaxed specifications as shown below;

Refraction                             Relaxed Limit

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Damaged / Slightly

damaged grains                                4%

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Discolored Grains               5%

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Broken Grains                                 30%

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5. The Commissioner of Civil Supplies AP Hyderabad has estimated

the additional expenditure involved in purchasing the discolored paddy

without cut is Rs. 36.00 Cr and requested the government to release the

additional budget to proceed further for procurement of discolored paddy.

After consideration of the above proposal in consultation with finance

department they have advised this department to meet the proposed

additional expenditure of Rs.36.00 Cr from the overall budget of the

department, during the financial year 2015-16. The CCS AP is therefore

requested to take necessary action for assessment of the actual

expenditure done so far and take necessary action in the matter.

6. The additional expenditure incurred in purchase of the damaged/

discoloured paddy, shall be reimbursed to the A.P. State Civil Supplies

Corporation Ltd. The A.P. State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd shall meet

the working capital for purchase of the damaged paddy from out of the

funds / cash credit available with them. Detailed proposal for

reimbursement of the additional expenditure incurred by the AP State

Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd., shall be submitted on completion of the

procurement of discoloured paddy.

7. The Collectors of East Godavari and West Godavari districts are

requested to ensure that the A.P. State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd.,

procure the affected paddy with damaged, discoloured, sprouted &

weevilled grains up to 10% against the existing limit of 5% subject to the

condition that damage, sprouted, & weevilled grains should not exceed

5%. The Collectors shall arrange wide publicity through press and

scrolling on the T.V Channels besides giving wide publicity by beat of

dandora (tom – tom) in the villages concerned for the benefit of the

farmers. To avoid rush at the Paddy Purchase Centres tokens should be

issued to the farmers, pamphlets indicating village-wise programme, the

date, time and location of the purchase centre shall be distributed on

large scale in each village affected due to heavy rains so that the farmers

could come to the purchase centres on the specified dates without any

difficulty.

8. The District Purchase Committees headed by the Joint Collectors

shall take appropriate action for engaging required number of technical

man power; procure the adequate number of equipments to conduct the

quality tests besides cleaning of the paddy brought by the farmers to

purchase centres. They shall make arrangements for the availability of

sufficient number of gunnies to transport paddy from PPCs and to make

necessary payment to the farmers and have scientific godowns to store

paddy purchased besides other logistics. The damaged paddy purchased

shall be stacked separately at each scientific godown like SWC, CWC, and

AMC etc. Special care should be taken to protect the stocks to be

procured under relaxations for different categories.

9. The paddy purchased by the APSCSCL with relaxed specifications

has to be custom milled and the resultant CMR to be delivered

immediately to the APSCSCL or FCI as per the relaxed specifications. The

paddy under relaxed specifications shall be procured directly from

farmers and resultant CMR rice obtained from relaxed paddy shall be

consumed in the state through DCP mode only on overriding priority for

TPDS and other welfare schemes. Separate account shall be maintained

for paddy and resultant rice procured under uniform specifications and

under relaxed specifications.

10. The District Collectors should take personal attention on

procurement of paddy exclusively from farmers only. No middle men

should be entertained.

11. The VC & Managing Director, A.P., State Civil Supplies Corporation

Ltd shall take further action for issue of detailed guidelines for purchase

of damaged / discoloured paddy, delivery of CMR and furnish details of

paddy purchased and CMR delivered daily to the Commissioner of Civil

Supplies, A.P, Hyderabad.

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)

G. JAYALAKSHMI

EX. OFFICIO SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT