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Goyal, who handles the buyer affairs portfolio, additionally stated the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal authorities is indulging in diverting funds despatched by the Centre and misusing them for different wants.
“‘We’re giving wheat to the native Punjab authorities and so they, as a substitute of distributing it via the native honest value retailers are diverting it to personal mills, changing it into atta (flour) and it’s reported that there are cases of blending high-quality authorities wheat with poor high quality,” he stated.
“Within the garb of giving a service to the customers by giving them atta, they’re truly fairly often not offering the grain to the individuals of Punjab,” he added.
Goyal stated the Punjab authorities is required to ship the wheat grain for distribution via the general public distribution system, in order that the poor should buy the grains for reasonable.
The honest value retailers have to take the biometrics of the client and match it with the Aadhar particulars whereas giving the grain, he added. “I’ve been repeatedly writing to the Punjab authorities, and I hope that the Punjab authorities will stop and desist from this apply,” he stated.
Within the case of West Bengal, he alleged that the state authorities diverts the funds for different functions and infrequently doesn’t observe laid down norms like making utilisation certificates.
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Questioning why the state authorities complains in regards to the non-release of funds, he stated, “Until the method is adopted and funds are used for the proper function, utilisation certificates is given, clearly the (central) authorities can not launch contemporary funds,” he stated.
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