Punjab Governor questions roll out of ‘atta’ home delivery scheme, writes to CM Mann
Guv Banwarlal Purohit says government has so far not responded to the letter sent by his office mentioning some objections to scheme
Punjab Governor questions roll out of ‘atta’ home delivery scheme, writes to CM Mann
Chandigarh:Three days after the Punjab Council of Ministers gave its go ahead to the home delivery of ‘atta’ scheme, Punjab Governor Banwarlal Purohit while “discharging his constitutional duty as Governor” has questioned the roll-out of the scheme.
In a letter to the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the Governor has said even though his office had forwarded some objections to the scheme being rolled out last year, the government has so far not responded to the letter.
On September 24 last year, the then Principal Secretary to Governor, J M Balamurugan, on the directions of the Governor, had sent a list of anomalies in the scheme for providing home delivery of atta, to then Chief Secretary V K Janjua. These anomalies were initially pointed out in a representation made by Leader of Opposition Partap Bajwa, to the Governor. These were: it would result in loss of livelihood of several thousands of families of depot holders and small flour mills (atta chakki); open the possibility of big flour mills to mix substandard wheat while grinding and it would go unchecked as poor quality cannot be detected in atta; and, it opens possibilities of huge underhand gains for flour mills through the by-products to be generated through grinding of atta (maida, suji, wheat bran).
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