BJP hits out at BJD over ‘Katni Chhatni’
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By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Soon after BJD launched a scathing assault on Narendra Modi authorities for all the issues of farmers, the BJP hit again accusing the regional occasion of exploiting them throughout paddy procurement.
“Katni Chhatni (paying less to farmers citing paddy not conforming to fair average quality) is rampant in all the mandis. The proceeds from this is directly going to the party fund of the BJD through rice millers,” stated State BJP common secretary Lekhashree Samantsinghar.
The frequent complaints from the farmers that the mandis refused to simply accept their paddy with out ‘Katni Chhatni’ beneath the plea that it doesn’t adjust to FAQ norms. Farmers have been alleging a nexus between millers and authorities officers, however why the State authorities is just not listening, she puzzled.
Alleging an enormous rip-off within the procurement of gunny baggage, the BJP chief stated the Centre is paying the value for gunny bag for packing. However, the value of gunny bag is rarely given to farmers. Even if baggage are provided to farmers, the fee is recovered by deducting paddy for every bag. She dared the BJD to show her mistaken.
Coming down closely on the federal government for poor infrastructure on the mandi stage, Samantsinghar stated, “The Centre has sanctioned thousands of crores of rupees for development of mandi infrastructure in the State, but the funds are lying unused,” she stated.
She additional alleged that lots of the mandis introduced by the federal government has not been opened throughout this kharif advertising and marketing season placing lot of hardship on the farmers.
The BJP chief reiterated her occasion demand for revision of the per acre yield of paddy from 13 to twenty quintal for non-irrigated land and from 19 to 30 quintal for irrigated land as a result of larger productiveness.
