Defaulting Telangana millers get a warning

Hyderabad: Telangana Commissioner of Civil Supplies, C V Anand on Wednesday warned that cases will be filed under the stringent Preventive Detention (PD) Act against the rice millers who failed to deliver arrears of custom milled rice (CMR).

Anand, who convened a meeting with the managers of Civil Supplies Corporation and defaulters of CMR, informed them that 21 rice millers of Warangal, Medak, Nalgonda, Mahabubnagar and Adilabad districts are yet to deliver 6000 MTs of CMR worth of Rs 17 crores against 2015-16.

According to an official release, the Commissioner of Civil Supplies directed the millers to deliver arrears of CMR against the crop year 2015-16 immediately failing which cases under Preventive Detention Act will be filed.

He has also stated that out of CMR dues of Rs 482 crores, already amount of Rs 465 crores (99 per cent) was realised and instructions were issued to the officials to realise the balance amount of Rs 17 crores.

He also cautioned that each and every paisa due from the millers to Government will be recovered without sparing anybody and if any miller failed to co-operate with the Government, stringent action will be initiated for recovery under Revenue Recovery Act (RR Act) and filing PD Cases as per law.

He informed that 100 per cent of CMR will be collected from this year onwards without any arrears. The reason for getting back CMR on time is very important.