The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs has suspended the licence of 13 brick kilns in the district for not getting it renewed in the stipulated time. It has also directed the kiln owners to stop the work of making raw bricks at their sites with immediate effect.
Accusing depot holders of not giving full share of wheat under the public distribution system (PDS), residents of Mallu Nangal village have filed a complaint with the office of the District Food and Civil Supplies Controller.
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A VETERAN has cycled almost 1,000 miles to raise money for an Armed Forces charity. Paul Robinson, of Preston, Weymouth, took on the epic fundraising trip with his partner Joanne Bridle and 22 other cycling fanatics across Kent, up through Cambridge and onto the Peak District before reaching the Scottish border.
Paul Robinson and partner Jo Bridle en route to Durness. Picture: SSAFA The 52-year-old set off from Dover on Armed Forces Day, on June 26, at the start of his almost 1,000 miles trip and finally reached Durness, in North West Scotland, on July 8. Paul, was a Supply Controller with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and Royal Logistics Corps between 1985 and 1998, serving in Germany, Cyprus, Canada, Belize and the former Yugoslavia.
LUDHIANA: District Food and Supply Controller (West) Sukhwinder Singh Gill and District Food and Supply Controller (East) Harveen Kaur on Friday said that 89 per cent of wheat arrived in grain markets had already been procured so far in the district.
Both district heads of food supply department said the district administration was duty-bound to ensure that farmers get their produce procured timely and they did not have wait for a day to sell the golden grains.
They said till April 15 in the ongoing Rabi season, the district administration had procured 106656 metric ton of the wheat in the various grain markets/ mandis out of 120295 wheat metric ton arrived in Ludhiana.