Withholding Rs 1,200 crore of Punjab s RDF an arm twisting: Manpreet Badal
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Last Updated: Jan 06, 2021, 10:38 PM IST
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Manpreet Singh Badal said the Centre has not released the RDF despite the state raising the issue with the concerned central ministry. Punjab charges three per cent of the minimum support price of wheat and paddy as the RDF from buyers, he said.
CHANDIGARH:Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Wednesday slammed the Centre for allegedly holding back the state s rural development fund amounting to Rs 1,200 crore, dubbing it as an arm twisting tactic amid the farmers protest. The kind of the government of India s attitude towards Punjab is not right. It has withheld our Rs 1,200 crore of RDF on paddy crop. It has not been paid to us as yet, said Badal while addressing the media here.
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If the state does not get RDF on paddy, it would cost the exchequer about Rs 1,250 crore in paddy season alone, Punjab Food Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu said. December 24, 2020 10:18:29 am
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)
Two months after the Centre refused to keep a provision for Rural Development Fund (RDF) in the Cash Credit Limit extended for the current paddy procurement season, the state is still awaiting the amount even after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh took it up with the Union government.
If the Centre does not accede to the state’s demand by December 31, the CCL for paddy will lapse and the state would lose Rs 1,250 crore due to the state on account of RDF on paddy, Punjab Food Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu told The Indian Express on Wednesday.
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