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No. 8 0 Poudouchéry Vendredi 12 Octobre 2012 (20 Asvina 1934)
No. Puducherry Friday 12th October 2012
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL SUPPLIES AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS
(G.O. Ms. No. 4, dated 11th October 2012)
ORDER
In the G.O Ms. No. 5, dated 9-6-2010 and G. O. Ms. No. 6, dated 9-6-2010 of the Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Puducherry 50 % millers levy has been imposed on the licensed rice millers of Puducherry and Karaikal regions of the Union territory of Puducherry and detailed instructions were issued followed by the orders for the proper implementation of the levy system vide G. O. Ms. No. 17, dated 18-8-2010 and G. O. Ms. No. 19, dated 7-9-2010 of the Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Puducherry.
2. The following orders are issued for the proper implementation of the levy system for the Kharif Marketing Season 2012-2013 :-
(i) The Food Corporation of India herein referred FCI shall be the "Agent" for the Union territory of Puducherry for procurement of rice under the mill levy from rice millers.
[ 903 ]LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT [ PART-I 904 904 (ii) The levy rice will be accepted by FCI as per the rates notified by Government of India. The procurement incidentals and transportation charges, gunny charges, milling charges, out-turn ratio etc., will be payable as per Government of India costing.
( i i i ) U n i f o r m s p e c i f i c a t i o n s f o r r i c e a r e a s p r e s c r i b e d b y t h e
Government of India.
(iv) The licensed rice millers shall deliver 50% of their total production as mill levy to the FCI. Based on the past performance of the mills and assessment made by the committee, a target is fixed to procure 47,000 MTs of rice as single boiled rice as per the specification approved by the Government of India for the KMS 2012-13 as 50 % levy in taking into account of the requirement for the PDS. The list of the licensed millers and their millwise target for single boiled rice for the KMS 2012-2013 will be communicated separately. The target fixed is subject to change according to the PDS requirements.
For the KMS 2012-2013, the following committee has been constituted
to fix the millwise target for the procurement of levy rice:
Secretary to Government (CS &CA) . . Chairman
Director of CS & CA, Puducherry . . Member-Secretary
Managing Director, PAPSCO, Puducherry . . Member
Deputy Director (CS & CA), Puducherry . . Member
Manager (QC), FCI, Puducherry . . Member
(a) The committee will assess the hulling capacity of the mills with the help of a suitable technical person and fix target accordingly based on the records produced by the mills and inspection of the mills.
(b) To assess the actual hulling capacity from time to time and modify the target accordingly, to blacklist the rice mills, to verify the records, registers of the rice mills.
(v) The Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs is authorised:
(a) for issue of release certificates for sale of levy free rice within the Union Territory and outside the Union Territory expeditiously so as to make adequate quantity of rice available in the open market and keep the price of rice under control. This is necessary in order to ensure that while procuring required rice for central pool for meeting PDS, the prices of rice in the open market are also kept under control. The Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs is authorised to issue the release certificate for sale of levy free rice within the Union Territory and outside the Union Territory.
(b) if the miller takes the option to sell 50% of the rice produced on millers account everyday to the Government, the miller is entitled to receive the release certificates in 1:1 ratio for the quantity sold to Government. On fixing millerwise target for a KMS, an agreement will be executed by the miller stating the monthwise commitments by the millers and release certificate will be issued on fulfilling the
undertaking by the millers.
PART-I ] LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT 905(c) for issue of MSP certificate to the millers according to the instructions given below:
1. M i l l e r s s h o u l d p u r c h a s e p a d d y f r o m t h e M a r k e t i n g Committee of Puducherry and Karaikal. While applying for the MSP certificate, the miller should furnish a cumulative data for the paddy procured by them from the Marketing Committee/from the farmers from Puducherry Union Territory/other States.
2. If the millers procure paddy from the farmers of Puducherry/ Karaikal, other than Marketing Committee, they should pay market fee in the Market Committee concerned. If the millers purchase paddy from other parts of the country, they should purchase from the market committee of the regions concerned and submit the receipt to establish it.
3. If the millers purchase paddy from the farmers of Puducherry or from other parts of the country directly, they have to produce evidence in terms of account payee cheque or ECS / RTGS transfer of money to the farmers.
(vi) If a miller in lieu of the quantity saleable under clause (iv) above, is agreeable to sell a fixed quantity of such variety or varieties of rice during such period or periods and in such installments as may be agreed upon between the miller and the Government, the Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs may enter into an undertaking in writing in this behalf in the prescribed form with such miller setting out the quantity, variety or varieties, period or periods, installments and other relevant details. If the miller having agreed to sell the fixed quantity as above, fails to sell the quantity fixed in the above manner in any month, the Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs or any officer authorised by the Director not below the rank of Deputy Tahsildar shall have the option to inspect the mill / godown of the miller and take possession of the stocks in the premises to the extent of shortfall in the sale of rice to the Government under the undertaking plus 10 % thereof.
(vii) Rice millers shall furnish the receipts along with xerox copies of payment details through bank transactions to the effect that the paddy has been purchased at MSP rates from the farmers. Purchase of paddy from other States other than from this Union Territory should be m e n t i o n e d s e p a r a t e l y i n t h e a p p l i c a t i o n w h i l e a p p l y i n g f o r t h e M S P c e r t i f i c a t e a n d t h e s a m e s h o u l d b e i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e instructions in clause v (c) above. The details of farmers such as name and address, their identification number if any, quantity of paddy purchased with rate per tonne, farmers signature etc. should invariably mentioned in the receipt.
(viii) The format for delivery levy rice to the FCI based on the c e r t i f i c a t e o f p u r c h a s e o f p a d d y a t M S P s h a l l b e a p p l i c a b l e f o r KMS 2012-2013. The FCI shall accept the levy deliveries from the individual millers.
(ix) The certificate for delivery of levy shall be issued for each individual miller separately and preferably in multiples of 27 MTs of rice.
(x) C e r t i f i c a t e o f l e v y s h o u l d b e a r th e s e r i a l n u m b e r f o r t h e Kharif Marketing Season concerned.
LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT [ PART-I 906 906(xi) The rice millers shall obtain, on application, the release certificate for sale of levy free rice within the Union Territory or anywhere in the country in the prescribed format along with the acceptance certificate issued by the FCI.
(xii) Rice under mill levy shall be delivered in 50 kgs. new BT gunny bags only.
(xiii) The rice millers shall undertake simultaneously the custom milling of paddy procured by the State Agencies and Food Corporation of India, as per the agreed terms and conditions and at the rates and norms fixed by the Government of India. The rice millers, within 15 days from the date of receipt of paddy, shall complete custom milling of paddy and deliver the resultant rice either as raw rice or boiled rice as prescribed by the Government or FCI for the paddy handed over during the Kharif Marketing Season 2012-13 by the FCI. The Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs shall direct the rice millers to mill the paddy handed over to them by the FCI and deliver custom milled rice to the FCI along with the levy rice if necessary by fixing a ratio between the mill levy delivery and the custom milled rice delivery. The Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs shall review the entire process of custom milling operations regularly and take necessary action against the rice millers, who fail to do custom milling of paddy procured by the Self / FCI /State Agency duly following the procedure in vogue. I n c a s e s o f f a i l u r e b y r i c e m i l l e r s i n c o n v e r t i n g t h e p a d d y t o r i c e w i t h i n t h e s t i p u l a t e d t i m e , the Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs shall furnish to the Food Corporation of India, the details of defaulters together with millwise quantities given for custom milling, quantity milled and the quantity yet to be milled so that the Food Corporation of India shall deduct the equivalent quantity of resultant rice for the paddy yet to be milled against the levy rice being delivered by such rice miller.
(xiv) The millers should maintain "B" Register which shall be submitted to Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs along with acceptance certificate by Food Corporation of India for issue of release certificate by the Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs.
(xv) Other conditions issued in the G.O. Ms. Nos. 32/96, 17/2010, 19/2010, 25/2010 and 9/2011 will hold good. Further instructions/amendment, if any, will be communicated as and when required.
(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)
DIRECTOR-CUM-JOINT SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT (CS&CA).
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