Samba: A team of Legal Metrology Department Saturday charged Rs 29100 fine from erring traders during extensive checking of various business establishments at Vijaypur, Ramgarh, BariBrahmna Lala Chack, Border Road Samba and adjoining areas.
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Agri Deptt adopts 200 kanals of Kupwara village under tomato cultivation
Srinagar: Director Agriculture Kashmir Saturday chaired a meeting to review the progress of various State and Centrally sponsored schemes for current fiscal and implementation of special projects for promotion of Agriculture and its allied sectors in Kashmir valley.
Joint Director Agriculture Inputs, Joint Director Engineering, Mushroom Coordinator, Divisional Officer and all Chief Agriculture Officers attended the meeting.
The Director said there will be the transparent mode of allotment of funds under all State and Central schemes. He emphasized upon officers for judicious use of funds allotted under various schemes on the ground level.
The Director Agriculture highlighted initiatives under vegetable cluster programs taken in Districts Srinagar, Budgam, Anantnag and Pulwama, wherein Rs 5 lakh have been released to each cluster respectively.
All the Chief Agriculture Officers were instructed to identify at least one block in their respective districts which are adversely affected by the climate change so that the same can be bought under the Climate Resilient Aggregation Project. The meeting was informed that in the district Budgam 25 villages have been identified for climate resilient change wherein baseline survey is under process.
The officers informed the Director that the geo-tagging of the assets is about to complete in all the districts. The Director emphasized to speed-up the progress on Soil Health Cards for 100% achievement as the deadline has been marked for August 8 to upload the information on the web portal.
He stressed on the officers to take necessary steps for revival of sick vermin-compost units in their respective districts to give the boost to organic farming. He instructed that there should be cent percent coverage under Kisan Credit Cards and every farmer must be covered under the scheme.
He asked officers to reach out to the grass root level and gear up the field functionaries so that benefits of all the schemes reache to the farmer which in turn can increase the production and productivity and raise the economic standard of the farming community.
Meanwhile, Chief Agriculture Officer Kupwara informed the meeting that 200 kanals of Hachimarg village has been adopted under tomato cultivation, wherein latest technology is being used and controlled vegetable cultivation will be undertaken to give a boost to the economic standards of the native farmers.
It was said work is underway to promote honey production in the district under Chief Minister’s Apiculture Development Project.
rent business establishments like Provisional stores, Karyana shops, LPG Gas Agencies, Atta Chacki, Fertilizers stores, General Stores,Bakery units, Poultry sellers, welding Work, Hardware stores, Sweet shops, Rice Mills , Industrial units were inspected for their Compliance with regard to various provisions of J&K Standard of weights and Measures Enforcement Act 2011(Am6ended) and packages Commodities rules .
The team also conducted surprise inspection at C&F store of Indian Tobacco Company Baribrahmna Godown with regard to MRP and other provisions of Legal Metrology Packages Commodities Rules after implementation of GST. Invoices of various products of Indian Tobacco Company were also checked by the team.
In all 16 challans of traders were booked for violations of various provisions of J&K Weights & Measures Enforcement Act 2011(amended), Packages Commodities Rules 2011 and other prevailing Legal metrology Laws and Rules.
On the request and assurance of traders not to repeat the same discrepancies as per the Act and Rules in future, all the Booked Challans were compounded by imposing the penalty of Rs 29100 on the these traders.
The team was headed by Ajay Kumar Verma, Assistant Controller Legal Metrology Samba and Mohsin Khateeb Inspector.
