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Modern Civil Supplies packing units to come up in three districts

Staff Reporter

Corporation plans to cut cost

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Adoor Prakash, has said that the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation will set up three modern packing centres, estimated at Rs. 30 crores, in Malappuram, Ernakulam and Pathanamthitta.

At a press conference here on Tuesday, the Minister said the corporation had been spending Rs. 3 crores every year on packing food items alone. The proposed packing units would bring down this cost.

Mr. Prakash said one of the units would come up at Poonkavu near Pathanamthitta. This and the unit in Ernakulam would have flour mills.

The Minister said a high-level meeting held recently had decided to hand over 100 acres of land owned by the Kerala Agriculture University in Konni for setting up the proposed Union Government-funded food research institute, estimated at Rs. 95 crores. He said the Government had constituted a council for the proposed institute with the Chief Minister as chairman and he the executive chairman.

The Ministers for Finance, Agriculture and Industries were vice-chairmen, while the Chief Managing Director of the Civil Supplies Corporation was the implementing officer.

Mr. Prakash said that the Government was also planning to set up a food-processing unit attached to the institute as part of efforts to convert Konni into a food export zone.

The Union Government had decided to set up a food research institute in Uttar Pradesh and the State was trying to make the proposed institute in Konni a zonal unit of the former.

Indoor stadium

The Minister said that a Union Government-funded indoor stadium would be set up at Poonkavu at an estimated cost of Rs. 1.21 crores.

The Centre would give 75 per cent of the project cost and the rest of the money would be from the local area development fund of the MLA.

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