Vadodara: The district supply office (DSO) on Wednesday seized a huge stock of tuver dal (pigeon peas) worth Rs 16.47 crore from a mill in Godhra town. The raid was conducted jointly by the DSO and mamlatdar after they received information about the stock.
During the search carried out in the mill, the officials found over 11 lakh bags of tuver dal. “Our investigations revealed that the stock came from the public distribution system (PDS) and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme of the Andhra Pradesh govt,” said Haresh Makwana, district supply officer, Panchmahal. The stock was packed in 50kg bags and sold in the open market in Godhra from the mill operated by Ilyas Mohammed Hussain.
When the officials questioned him and asked him to furnish documents to justify such a huge stock of Andhra Pradesh govt’s PDS in his mill, he couldn’t give any satisfactory reply. “We will take legal action against them,” Makwana said. tnn We also published the following articles recently PCMC set to dispose of expired remdesivir stock worth 2 crore The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation decided to dispose of expired remdesivir and other Covid-19 drugs worth Rs 2 crore.
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