EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY — THE ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES ACT, 1955

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 803, CUTTACK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2016/ BAISAKHA 14, 1938 FOOD SUPPLIES & CONSUMER WELFARE DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION The 20th April, 2016 No. 8286–09-61-08/2016—Whereas for maintaining the supply of rice and for securing its equitable distribution and availability at fair prices in the State of Odisha, the State Government had made the Odisha Rice and Paddy Procurement (Levy) and Restriction on Sale and Movement Order, 2013. And whereas, the said order has been rescinded in the wake of withdrawal of consent of the Government of India for imposition of rice levy orders, in the notification of the Government of Odisha in the Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Department No.10759, dated the 3rd June, 2015. And whereas, there is no Order to control paddy procurement and Custom Milling of rice and the State Government are of the opinion that it is necessary and expedient so to do for maintaining the supplies of rice and for securing its equitable distribution and availability at fair prices in the State of Odisha. And whereas, the Government of India in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food & Public Distribution, in their letter dated the 9th December, 2015, has given its advance concurrence to the Order, if the Order is in consonance with their observation made in the above said letter. And whereas, the Order is in consonance with the observation made by the Government of India in their letter dated the 9th December, 2015. Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers, conferred by Section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955) read with the notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Department of Food) G.S.R. 800, dated the 9th June, 1978, published in the Gazette of India,