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
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