Civil Supplies and Irrigation Minister Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy has reassured that every grain Telangana farmers produce will be procured at Minimum Support Price (MSP). He also warned of stern action against traders who purchase paddy or other produce below MSP.
Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, Uttam Kumar Reddy dismissed the allegations levelled by opposition BRS leaders of a scam in the global tenders called by the Civil Supplies Corporation to dispose of enormous paddy stocks. He said former minister Harish Rao, former BRS MLA Jeevan Reddy, and other BRS leaders were levelling baseless allegations, lacking subject knowledge of either paddy procurement or auction.
Uttam Kumar Reddy gave a detailed PowerPoint presentation providing comparative figures of paddy procurement processes and auctions between the previous BRS regime and the current Congress Government.
