Sangrur, May 6 There was tension in the city today when residents stopped the police and food and civil supply officers from storing wheat on an open plinth situated on the Ubhawal road. When ...

Home News: The Punjab Agro agreed to pay 35 paisa per quintal per month as rent to the owners of the private open plinth stores for wheat storage but the rent am.

“We had de-hired the majority of open storage godowns in the recent past, and after the FCI orders, we have started the process to re-hire at least 40-45 lakh tonnes of capacity open plinths to ...

These plinths will come up in 15 of Punjab districts, with more than half of the total capacity to be in Moga (1.75 lakh tonne), Sangrur (1.55 lakh tonne) Jalandhar (1.35 lakh tonne) and Patiala ...

"The commonly used storage method is cover and plinth storage, which is economical but loss of grain is inevitable. Very few scientific storage structures like silos are available," she added.

The piece Whiteread did for the plinth – that looked like a plinth with a glass plinth on top of it – failed afterwards to find another public place to be displayed. So she is miffed, quite rightly, ...