INSPECT PADDY CENTRES, STOP STUBBLEBURNING: CS

LUCKNOW: Chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra has directed all divisional commissioners and district magistrates to regularly carry out inspections of paddy procurement centres in the state to ensure farmers did not have to face any inconvenience in selling their produce.

Holding a meeting through video conference here on Wednesday, he also directed officials to set up special control rooms in all districts to dispose of farmers’ complaints. He ordered strict action against middlemen and people storing paddy illegally.

Mishra further directed officials to generate awareness among farmers telling them about the adverse environmental impact of stubble-burning. He said officials should camp in sensitive villages to curb incidents of crop fires. He stressed on the need to popularise the ‘parali do, khad lo’, programme.

The CS said intensive fogging drives must be carried out on a war footing to combat dengue and other viral diseases.