Purposes for which the Fund may be applied

The Fund shall be applied for the following purposes, namely:- (i) for construction or repair of approach roads to mandis or procurement centres and street lights thereon enabling farmers in transportation of their produce; (ii) for construction or development of new mandis or procurement centres and development of old or katcha mandis or procurement centres; (iii) for making arrangements for supply of drinking water and for improving sanitation in the mandis or procurement centres; (iv) for providing well equipped rest houses or night shelters or sheds for farmers and labour engaged in procurement operations; (v) for augmenting storage facilities in mandis to store procured stocks so as to strengthen the procurement and marketing systems in the state; (vi) to provide relief to debt stressed farmers of the State to eliminate any possibility of distress sale; (vii) for development of hardware or software related to procurement or linking of land records, crop survey, bio-authentication of farmers at the mandis or State level which may improve transparency and facilities the procurement activities; (viii) for installation or purchase of computerized electronic weighbridge or weighment facilities or quality testing equipment’s or sieving facilities in the mandis or procurement centres and its integration with e-procurement module; (ix) for automation and mechanization of mandis with facility of cleaning, sorting, drying, analyzing quality of grains, small shipping silo, bag sacking and stitching; and (x) for carrying out such purposes which may led to strengthening of mandis or procurement operations.