Rayagada district administration seized a huge stock of fertilizers belonging to the IPL company. This interesting part is that this stock was stacked in the building meant to used as the Office of Chief District Medical Officer and Drug ware house for the district. More than 9000 bags of fertilizers of the MOP variety and Urea was found inside the premises.
Acting on a tip off from local reliable sources, Collector Rayagada personally went to the spot and after breaking open the gate of the structure, which is now in the custody of the PWD authorities found the huge stock.
The officers from district Agriculture Office, Tahsildar and police persons conducted detailed search and mad a seizure of more than 9000 bags. Collector Rayagada said that since this stock was illegally stored in the building and the fact that there was criminal trespass and malafide in this entire act of storing the fertilizers commodity in a building meant for Health dept, there are all reasons to presume that the stock was meant to be disposed in black market and hence the same has been confiscated to the state under the Fertilizers control act.
After confiscation , the next step district administration intends to take i s to sell the same to the needy farmers at the government approved rate. At times farmers are compelled buy the fertilizers at double the price and this step of the district administration is will act as a great relief to the farmers in this time when agriculture operations are in full swing.
