New Indian Express reports the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Odisha recently directed the assistant registrar of cooperative societies of Jagatsinghpur to take action against eight secretaries of PACS for violating the procurement policy norms during 2021-2022.
The secretaries’ dishonest behavior had caused a large number of farmers to lose their harvested paddy. The administration had engaged 33 millers against the actual requirement of 42 which apparently caused delay in lifting of paddy from farmers.
Scores of aggrieved farmers under the banner of Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan staged dharana in front of Collector’s office demanding lifting of paddy from them. But neither the administration nor the Civil Supplies department fulfilled the demands.