Lucknow: Owing to acute shortage of storage space, the state government will utilise airstrips in the state to stack wheat. The government is also planning to convert stadiums into temporary storage places.
Confirming this, Principal Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies, Balwinder Kumar said a letter has been sent to the Civil Aviation department of the state for necessary permission to stock wheat at airstrips under its control. “The state has witnessed a bumper crop and we need to adjust the wheat stock. Though the airstrips will not be able to accommodate much stock, we hope 30-40 thousand metric tonne of wheat can be stored,” said Kumar.
The state has 15 airstrips situated in Ambedkar Nagar, Ghazipur, Sultanpur, Aligarh, Meerut, Farrukhabad, Faizabad, Kushinagar, Sonbhadra, Kheri, Etawah, Shrawasti, Moradabad, Azamgarh and Chitrakoot. “We are planning to use seven airstrips for storing wheat,” the Principal Secretary said.
Currently, the Food and Civil Supplies department is on the lookout for any open space which is surrounded by a boundary wall for the storage.
13/05/12 Faisal Fareed/Express India
To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline
0 comments:
Post a Comment