Thursday, 06 July 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
In latest Uttarakhand news, the State food and civil supply minister Rekha Arya requested the Union food and public distribution minister Piyush Goyal to hike the amount of the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy while participating in a national conference in New Delhi where the food and civil supply ministers of all the states and union territories of the country participated. Goyal was learnt to have assured her of considering this matter. Among the subjects on which deliberations were held during the conference were the formulation of a work plan for purchasing and distributing millets, enhancing the paddy procurement arrangement so as to benefit the farmers, improvement in the functioning of the PDS and quick launching of Smart PDS project.
