Important Initiatives
REFORM INITIATIVES FOOD DEPARTMENT PERIOD : 2020-21
S.No
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Name of initiative
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Current status.
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Impact/ results.
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1
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Amendment in Food Laws/ Rules.
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Amendments in Sugar factories control Act 1950 are under consideration in the Law Department beside arrangements are being made for capacity building of the staff
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Under consideration
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2
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Enhancement of registration, fee of carriage contractors, annual renewal fee of Food Grain license for dealers and flour mills and security/ bank guarantee in order to safeguard the Govt interest and enhance
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Kind of tax/Fee. Fine
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Existing Rate (Rs)
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Registration fee C-Class Contractor
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7000
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Registration fee A-Class Contractors
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50000
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Renewal of Registration of A-class contractor
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25000
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Renewal of Registration of B-class contractor
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20000
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Renewal Fee for Registration fee C-Class Contractors
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7000
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Food Grain License fee/ Renewal fee (FG Dealers)
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500
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Food Grain License fee/ Renewal fee (Flour mills)
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5000
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3
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Augmentation of available storage capacity for wheat to ensure food security for the general public of the province
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Present available storage of the province is 0.400 million tons. Efforts are being made to augment the storage capacity up to 0.6 million tons for which schemes have been approved for construction of new godowns In various districts of the provenance. Details of going and new schemes is as follows:-
Ongoing Schemes
ADP No.
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Name of Scheme
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Allocation for 2020-21 (Rs in million)
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654/170606
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Construction of Food Grain Godowns of 3000 ton capacity in District Tank
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70.000
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655/170614
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Construction of Food Grain Godowns of 3000 ton capacity in District Bannu
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44.000
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656/170616
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Construction of Food Grain Godowns of 3000 ton capacity in District Shangla
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50.000
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657/170608
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Construction of Food Grain Godowns of 5000 ton capacity in District Dir Upper
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35.000
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658/170609
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Construction of Food Grain Godowns of 250 X16= 4000 ton capacity in District Chitral
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80.220
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659/170617
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Construction of Food Grain Godowns of 2000 ton capacity in District Kohistan
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60.000
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660/170502
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Special Repair of Food Grain Godowns in various District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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51.000
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661/160573
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Construction of Residential Apartments (Tow/Three rooms) for DFCs, AFCs and Food Inspectors in various District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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50.000
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662/170262
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Construction of Food Grain Godowns of 2000 ton capacity in District Torghar
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15.000
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a). ADP scheme No. 655, 658 and 661 Construction of godowns in Bannu, Chitral, Toorghar and Residential Apartments (Two/Three Rooms) for DFCs, AFCs will be completed till June 30, 2021. With the completion of said food grain godowns storage will be increased.
b). All other schemes are on fast track, by the completion of these ongoing schemes storage capacity will increase in each district
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4
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Capacity building of staff and mass awareness campaign and provision of equipment.
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In the field of Human Resource Development, program has been chalked out for capacity building of staff and also for awareness of the masses. Beside essential equipment are also to be provided to the staff for improving their efficiency for which an amount of Rs.60 million has been worked out for medium term target.
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World Food Program has been requested for training. Beside the
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IMPORTANT INITIATIVES
The following initiatives/schemes have been included in the ADP 2020-21.
- Feasibility study regarding storage requirement and current capacity (Both Public & Private) in optimizing facility location and storage choices on demand and supply pattern to ascertain need of godowns in settle District.
- Special Repair of existing non-functional food grain godowns in selected districts.
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