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Work on new sheds in chilli yard begins

Special Correspondent

— T. Vijaya Kumar

Reconstruction in progress at Agriculture Market Yard in Guntur.

GUNTUR: Sites have been allotted to all the 575 license holders in Agriculture Market Yard here and construction of individual sheds by the license holders has begun, while the Marketing Department Engineering wing has started building 12 godowns with a layout of Rs.3.73 crore.

Large earthmovers and manpower was being used to clear all the remaining building material from the gutted old sheds and new ones would be made ready by January-end according to Guntur Agriculture Market Committee ChairmanLella Appi Reddy. A new secretary for the agriculture market yard is yet to be appointed by the department after the earlier official was transferred following the fire incident.

Meanwhile, District Collector B. Venkatesham has asked the Agriculture Market Committee to go ahead with training programme for the clerks or license holders in time for implementing the computerisation of all operations from Day 1 of the new season. The yard had sanctioned Rs.80 lakh for training and computerising and connecting each trader’s computer with the main office.

The training would be given in the coming one week to all the persons on using the computers and entering the data on weighment and sale of tikkies to make it a realistic trading unlike the earlier era.

The urgency to continue chilli auctions from next season beginning February 1, the managing committee got a sanction for Rs.3.73 crore to construct temporary sheds on the 49.73-acre land that would eventually be converted into terminal vegetable market.

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