Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma has constituted18 flying squads at district and market committee levels to keep a check onrecycling of paddy/bogus billing and inflow of illegal paddy/rice from otherstates in Ludhiana.
As per orders, each flying squad at district levels wouldbe headed by Additional Deputy Commissioners along with their policecounterparts and a representative from Mandi Board, Food supply,Tehsildar/Nayab Tehsildar Excise to ensure strict compliance of orders. Atsub-divisional levels, the squads would be led by SDMs along with policeofficials and others.
Further, orders read that these squads would inspect thegrain markets/commission agents and submit a report to his office daily. Thesesquads would also carry out surprise visits at night in their areas to keep avigil on the unauthorised inflow of paddy/rice from other states.
Meanwhile on the directions of Deputy Commissioner, ateam led by ADC Jagraon Dr Nayan along with Tehsildar Manmohan Kaushik, SHOKirandeep Kaur, AFSO Beant Singh and others, carried out an inspection in theold Grain market on Wednesday and checked the records of Goyal Broker, ShreeMahavir Brokerage, Piare Lal Ramesh Chander and Gagan Goel and Sons.
The commission agents gave undertakings to the flyingsquads that they would not purchase the paddy/rice from other states.
ADC Jagraon Dr Nayan said that those indulging in themalpractices would face severe action and told flying squad would keep roundthe clock check on movement of trucks carrying illegal paddy.