Clear grievances by month-end: Dinesh Kumar

Vijayawada: AP chief secretary Dinesh Kumar ordered his officials to clear all non-financial grievances received in Janmabhoomi by this month end. He ordered the district collectors to write down the procedures to the heads of the departments regarding the division of grievances into financial and non-financial cases and their sub-categories. He also asked them to provide assistance on the budget estimate for the financially-related grievances. 

While addressing a tele-conference on Monday with the collectors and HODs, he directed them to focus on the paddy procurement and to take measures to draw the Minimum Support Price for every individual farmer. The chief secretary directed the collectors to take firm action against the re-cyclers. 

Mr Dinesh cautioned the collectors on the practice of the rice millers recycling the old rice and getting it to the paddy procurement centres and suggested measures to verify it by checking two consecutive months of electricity bills to identify the offenders.

The chief secretary also instructed them to expedite the crop loans for the rabi season. Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Kurnool and Nellore districts needed to speed up the process while Krishna and other districts had to concentrate on the loans to be given to the tenant farmers.

Mr Dinesh reiterated that district collectors had to lead the MNREGA works and directed them to personally supervise and interact in the ongoing works. He shared that the collectors had to see to it that the wages reached the labor employees on time and that the records were maintained properly.