Fatehgarh Sahib, May 13: Resentment prevails among labourers and commission agents against the government for failing to fulfil its promise of clearing the commission, labour charges, stitching and loading bills worth crores of rupees. The payment of wheat procured by various government agencies is also pending.
Commission agents alleged that the officials of the procurement agencies were not paying heed to their repeated requests in spite of the fact that the wheat procurement season had ended.
Rajesh Singla, press secretary, Arhtiya Association Punjab, said the situation had come to such a point that the labourers were on the verge of starvation because the commission agents had stopped making payments to them and advances to the farmers as they didn’t have sufficient funds due to non-clearance of their bills by the government procurement agencies.
He said before the wheat procurement season, the state government had promise the commission agents that their bills of commission, loading, stitching and labour charges would be cleared along with the bills of procured wheat.
He said similar assurance was given by the Chief Minister but unfortunately none of the government procurement agency was clearing their commission and labour charges bills.
