WAZIRABAD -DCO Azmat Mehmood along with AC Rao Sohail Akhtar paid surprise visit to five wheat procurement centres set up in the tehsil and reviewed procurement process. He urged the centres’ officials to provide better services to farmers.
According to detail, eight wheat procurement centres including Wazirabad, Gakkhar Mandi, Jaura Sian, Ahmad Nagar, Varpal, Rasool Nagar, Alipur Chattha and Kheway Wali were given target of procurement of 75,040 tonnes of wheat but the Food Department could achieve only 40 percent so far.
The DCO checked record and wheat stock which was found much behind the target. He said that the Food Department was unlikely to achieve the wheat procurement target in the tehsil due to corruption in the department.
He said that the wheat procurement target for the tehsil had been fixed 75,040 tonnes but the department had so far procured half of the wheat bags.
Harvesting in the area was almost complete and it looks hard to achieve the wheat procurement target.