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“Open Direct Procurement Centres”

Staff Reporter

At Alankudi, Iluppur and Annavasal

PUDUKOTTAI: The district wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI)-led Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Association has urged the district administration to take action to start Direct Procurement Centres (DPC) at Alankudi, Iluppur and Annavasal to facilitate the farmers sell their produce.

A resolution adopted to this effect at its meeting held here on Wednesday said that in the absence of DPCs, farmers were experiencing a great hardship to market the paddy.

The starting of the DPCs at these centres would go a long way in enabling the farmers reap the benefits of the harvest.

The meeting, through another resolution, urged the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to take steps to generate additional power to meet the growing crisis in the distribution network. The power holiday, currently in vogue, should be revoked without further delay.

Compensation to plantain-growers

On the extensive damage caused to the plantain due to gales twice in the district a few months ago, the meeting expressed concern over the serious loss incurred by the cultivators. Worst-hit were the lessees who had incurred a heavy financial loss and a resolution was passed urging the district administration to initiate steps for the disbursement of adequate compensation to the plantain-growers.

Pleading for co-ordination among various departments for the prompt implementation of the Irrigated Agriculture Management and Water Resource, a resolution said that this ‘IAMWARM’, with ideal objectives, could achieve the desired goals through a stronger co-ordination among the departments.

Explaining the contents of the resolutions to the mediapersons here on Wednesday, the district secretary of the Association, S. P. Muthukumaran said that the IAMWARM, being implemented jointly by departments including the Agriculture, the Public Works, the Agricultural Engineering and the Animal Husbandry, needed a co-ordination by the Heads of Department.

‘A proposal mooted by any one of these departments needed the concurrence of the other concerned official. But, the delay on the part of the latter in extending the concurrence caused some delay,’ he said.

The Alankudi MLA, S. Rajasekaran and the district president of the Association S. Kalimuthu were among those who spoke.

The following were elected office-bearers of the Association: S. G. Somaiah, president; P. Sevuga Perumal, vice-president; S. Natarajan, deputy secretary; and S. Kalimuthu, treasurer.

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