Irrigation and Marketing Minister T Harish Rao today directed the officials to sanction 200 posts sanctioned by the government and take steps to allot more posts in the marketing department. Harish directed to call tenders for construction of storage houses with financial assistance of Nabard by expediting land acquisition process. During a high level review meeting on strengthening marketing system to provide all facilities to farmers to procure their produce, Harish said that steps should be taken to install 30 more market committees to increase the existing 150 committees to 180. The minister also asked the officials to find land to set up Ryothu Bazars in each division besides introducing bar code file monitoring system and recover 50 acres of land allotted for fruit market at Koheda in Shamshabad mandal. Promising to increase the salaries of security guards, Harish directed to set up third branch of CCI (for cotton storage) at Bowenpally. He said that insurance facility will be extended to workers at the market yards. (NSS)
