Bill Seeking To Amend AMPC Act Withdrawn
Maharashtra Government on November 28 withdrew a bill to amend the Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act from the legislative council, a day after it was passed.
About the Bill
An ordinance by the state government on October 25 amended the Maharashtra Agriculture Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 1963.
This Act had made it mandatory for farmers to sell all their crops after harvest in mandis within a geographically delineated market area under the particular APMC’s jurisdiction.
But the amendment sought to curtails the supervisory powers of APMCs only within its own “principal market yard, sub-market yard and market sub-yard”.
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