Congress alleges ₹1,000-crore scam in civil supplies
1 year, 7 months ago

Congress alleges ₹1,000-crore scam in civil supplies

Deccan Chronicle  

KARIMNAGAR: Congress party leader Meneni Rohit Rao has alleged an annual scam of ₹1,000 crore in the Civil Supplies Department headed by minister Gangula Kamalakar, due to which innocent farmers are losing large amounts of money. Congress party leaders led by Rohit Rao inspected the agriculture market yard on Sunday and inquired from farmers about the process of procuring paddy. Rohit Rao himself performed actions that officials take up at the purchasing centres, like filling an empty gunny bag which is supposed to contain 50 kg of paddy. “When such a huge scam is taking place, neither Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao nor civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar appear to be bothered.

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Paddy purchase: Minister Nadendla Manohar explains facts to YSRCP
1 month ago

Paddy purchase: Minister Nadendla Manohar explains facts to YSRCP

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA: Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Nadendla Manohar has targeted YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy through a series of tweets on social media platform X, responding to his recent allegations of tardy paddy procurement. Look at the figures.” In others, he urged Jagan to “Wake up.” The coalition government is ensuring fair deal to farmers by procuring …

Govt to Cover Extra Costs for Paddy Storage: Uttam
2 months ago

Govt to Cover Extra Costs for Paddy Storage: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Civil supplies minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy directed officials to expedite paddy procurement and told civil supplies commissioner and department officials to shift the paddy to intermediary godowns wherever millers were not cooperating. Uttam Kumar Reddy highlighted that Telangana was expected to achieve a record yield of nearly 150 lakh metric tonnes of paddy, making this year’s procurement process …

Government to Credit Paddy Payments Within 48 Hours of Purchase: Minister
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Government to Credit Paddy Payments Within 48 Hours of Purchase: Minister

The Hindu  

Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar announces immediate payment of MSP for paddy. The government will purchase every grain of paddy produced by the farmers at the minimum support price (MSP). Farmers can bring their paddy to the rice mills of their choice, and within 48 hours of delivery, the payment will be credited to their accounts. The government will continue …

₹1.55 crore scam unearthed, 1.1K rice bags meant for poor families seized
6 months, 2 weeks ago

₹1.55 crore scam unearthed, 1.1K rice bags meant for poor families seized

Hindustan Times  

Unearthing a “scam” amounting to ₹1.55 crore, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau raided a warehouse, seized two trucks laden with 1,138 bags of rice and arrested three persons in Maur Mandi, Bathinda, its spokesperson said on Friday. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau says it call officials of a warehouse in Maur Mandi and those of Food Corporation of India for questioning to …

BJP demands CBI probe into multi-crore irregularities in civil supplies department
7 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP demands CBI probe into multi-crore irregularities in civil supplies department

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: BJP Legislature Party leader Aleti Maheshwar Reddy demanded a probe by a sitting judge or the CBI into alleged large-scale corruption in the civil supplies department. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Maheshwar Reddy said civil supplies minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy had failed to respond to issues he had raised on irregularities in paddy and rice procurement. …

KTR alleges Rs 1,000 cr scam in paddy procurement process
7 months, 2 weeks ago

KTR alleges Rs 1,000 cr scam in paddy procurement process

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: BRS working president KT Rama Rao alleged that Rs 1,000 crore scam took place in paddy lifting and in purchasing fine variety rice in the state. Asking Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy to speak on this issue, he alleged that the Congress was known for scams. Showing some documents to the …

Uttam slams BJP, BRS for resorting to false propaganda against Congress
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Uttam slams BJP, BRS for resorting to false propaganda against Congress

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy here on Sunday slammed the BJP and BRS for unnecessarily making false propaganda on the Congress government on procuring paddy from farmers. Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, he said it was the Congress government that purchased paddy at a fast pace this time compared to the previous BRS government and the …

₹1.37-cr paddy embezzlement: Kapurthala police yet to register FIR against rice mill owner
8 months, 3 weeks ago

₹1.37-cr paddy embezzlement: Kapurthala police yet to register FIR against rice mill owner

Hindustan Times  

Kapurthala: Even as Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited submitted a report pertaining to embezzlement of paddy worth ₹1.37 crore, Kapurthala police are yet to register a first information report against a Kapurthala-based rice miller, who was accused of misappropriating 5,514 quintals of paddy. Even as Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited submitted a report pertaining to embezzlement of paddy …

BRS alleges scam in global tenders to dispose of paddy, seeks ED probe
8 months, 4 weeks ago

BRS alleges scam in global tenders to dispose of paddy, seeks ED probe

The Hindu  

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has alleged that a huge financial scam has taken place in the global tenders called by the State Government to dispose of huge paddy stocks lying with it as the paddy is being disposed at ₹1,900 per quintal against the minimum support price of ₹2,183 and ₹2,203 per quintal. Party leader and former MLA A. Jeevan …

AP farmers told not to worry about paddy caught in rain, compensation promised
1 year, 1 month ago

AP farmers told not to worry about paddy caught in rain, compensation promised

Deccan Chronicle  

Kakinada: Civil supplies minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao and BC Welfare Minister Chelluboyina Srinivasa Venu Gopalakrishna visited the paddyfields in their constituencies where the harvested paddy was heaped on the grounds, on Monday. Nageswara Rao said the harvested paddy has been carried to the nearest rice mills on a war-footing. The paddy in Krishna district would be sent to the …

Purchase paddy sans conditions: Telangana Kisan Congress
1 year, 7 months ago

Purchase paddy sans conditions: Telangana Kisan Congress

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Leaders of the Telangana Kisan Congress, who tried to meet the civil supplies commissioner seeking redressal of farmer’s grievances and other irregularities in purchase of paddy in the guise of wastage, were taken into custody on Saturday. The paddy that is yet to be purchased is getting soaked in rains and farmers are facing problems owing to this,” wrote …

BJP alleges ₹3,500 crore scam in paddy purchase
1 year, 8 months ago

BJP alleges ₹3,500 crore scam in paddy purchase

Deccan Chronicle  

KAKINADA: Bharatiya Janata Party state president Somu Veerraju on Saturday alleged that there is a scam of ₹3,500 crore per annum in purchase of paddy by millers and the civil supplies department in the state. Veerraju said the scam started after the Rice Millers’ Association leader had been made chairman of the Civil Supplies Corporation. He demanded that the state …

Gangula deceiving farmers on purchase of food grains: Ponnam
1 year, 8 months ago

Gangula deceiving farmers on purchase of food grains: Ponnam

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: Former Congress MP Ponnam Prabhakar has accused civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar of deceiving farmers by giving them wrong information pertaining to purchase of food grains through procurement centres across the state. In a statement released in Karimnagar district on Sunday, Prabhakar recalled the minister informing that the state government has purchased five lakh metric tonnes of food grains …

TD alleges rice scam in AP, demands CBI probe
2 years, 2 months ago

TD alleges rice scam in AP, demands CBI probe

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: The opposition Telugu Desam has sought a CBI inquiry into the 'rice scam' allegedly involving civil supplies minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao and Kakinada MLA Dwarampudi Chandrasekhara Reddy. Speaking to the media in Mangalagiri on Tuesday, TD spokesperson K Pattabhiram said the sudden increase in rice exports through the Kakinada port at a time raised some questions. The involvement …

Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao must buy paddy from state farmers or resign, demands BJP
2 years, 9 months ago

Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao must buy paddy from state farmers or resign, demands BJP

Firstpost  

Telangana BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar recently alleged that the TRS government’s ‘politicking on paddy procurement’ smacks of a large-scale conspiracy Hyderabad: As the ruling TRS staged a dharna in New Delhi on Monday over the paddy procurement row, the BJP in Telangana organized a protest here demanding that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao either purchase paddy produced …

TRS leaders in paddy procurement scam: BJP
2 years, 9 months ago

TRS leaders in paddy procurement scam: BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Alleging a massive scam in the procurement of paddy in Telangana, BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar demanded a judicial inquiry by a sitting High Court judge into the murky episode, if Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was sincere and if he was really concerned about farmers. Speaking to reporters here on Sunday, Sanjay lashed out at the Chief …

Middlemen, traders cheating us: Farmers
2 years, 10 months ago

Middlemen, traders cheating us: Farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

Nellore: Farmers are up in arms against the state government for not procuring paddy being harvested during the current season though procurement centres opened few days back. They alleged that middlemen and traders have been offering Rs 14,000 for one Putti of paddy as against MSP of Rs 16,660 fixed by the government since there is no facility for farmers …

What agitating farmers want, and why the Centre may not oblige
4 years, 1 month ago

What agitating farmers want, and why the Centre may not oblige

India Today  

The scale of the November 26 protest march by 20-odd farmers’ groups of Punjab to New Delhi has perhaps taken both central agencies as well as the Punjab leadership of the BJP by surprise. The Haryana government’s police deployment to try and stop the agitating farmers from marching towards Delhi led to a war of words between the state’s chief …

Congress to raise farm ordinances, various ‘scams’ in Haryana House
4 years, 4 months ago

Congress to raise farm ordinances, various ‘scams’ in Haryana House

The Hindu  

All set to corner the ruling coalition of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jannayak Janta Party during the monsoon session of the Haryana Assembly beginning on Wednesday, the Congress plans to bring adjournment motions on three agricultural ordinances and to demand a discussion on the scams, besides raising the issue of “constantly deteriorating law and order system in the …

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