Jagtial mills, big holes, few documents
A report says inspections found Rs 135 crore worth of paddy “missing” across four Jagtial mills and flags a wider Rs 1,800 crore risk. The paperwork behind those claims isn’t public. Telangana’s interest is simple: show the reports, name the mills, recover the grain — and spare us the national-party sermons while you’re at it.
The reported mill shortfalls await the inspection reports, FIRs and recovery records.
Vigilance officials were reported to have inspected three rice mills near Thakkallapalli in Jagtial Rural and found 35,000 metric tonnes of paddy not in place, valued at Rs 87.89 crore. Four or five days later, officials reportedly checked a fourth mill in Mallapur mandal and recorded another Rs 45 crore shortfall. The arithmetic lands at Rs 135 crore across four mills — as reported, not yet backed by published inspection reports or FIRs. (Source below.)
The same report lists custom milling rice (CMR) allotments and deliveries across recent seasons and says officials estimate mills should still be holding stock worth around Rs 1,800 crore — while unnamed industry chatter claims up to half of it may already be gone. Those are allegations and risk estimates, not confirmed seizures or a recovery ledger. The unit glitches in the text (“lakhs of metric tonnes” that would break physics) don’t help confidence.
What the public record in hand does confirm is thinner: Jagtial’s civil supplies page gives background on mill counts and procurement but no 2026 inspection memos, no mill names, no FIR numbers, no seizure lists. An older 2018 case shows Jagtial has had miller defaults before; it does not prove today’s figures.
Telangana’s interest is clear: publish the inspection reports, name the four mills and their owners, put the FIR numbers on the table, and show the valuation sheets that turn 35,000 tonnes into Rs 87.89 crore and Mallapur’s count into Rs 45 crore. If the numbers hold, move to recoveries and attachments; if they don’t, fix the books and the enforcement that missed them.
And spare us the lectures from the BJP-led Centre and its Telangana arm about “accountability” while FCI backlogs and procurement politics trail every season, or from the Congress chorus — including the Congress government next door in Karnataka that still hasn’t answered Telangana’s water questions — about governance standards. Hyderabad’s taxpayers don’t need a sermon; they need the documents and the grain back.