Farmers raise complaints over irregularities in DPCs

Farmers of Madurai district yet again raised complaints regarding irregularities in the functioning of direct purchase centres (DPCs) in the district during the farmers grievance redress meeting held at the Collectorate here on Tuesday. In the meeting, presided over by Madurai District Revenue Officer K. Anbalagan, the farmers said there were over 40 approved DPCs in the district. However, about half of them were operating only after Deepavali.