AGARTALA, March 23 (TIWN): The audit of MGNREGA had time to time exposed Tripura’s rural development scams but what about Tripura’s Agriculture Dept's scams ? Eventhough Tripura since king's era had an Agro-based economy, but the agriculture almost died in the past decade amid having a huge Agriculture Dept led Tripura's poor revenue income. Either in the name of Kishan Call Centre or Central Schemes corruptions, fund loots have paralyzed the whole dept.

One of the most corrupted dept of Tripura has been the ‘Krishi Bhawan’ or ‘Agriculture Dept’, where few officials career began from “Krishin Bhawan” headquarter, at Fire Brigade Chowmuhani and still they are posted at there. 

Question arises, when local breed of cattle population are very scare, how can officers instruct the beneficiary to prepare panvhagavya with curd, Ghee, of local breed of cow, when Neem trees are not so common in our villages like Northern India how farmers can make neem based pesticides at home?

Few Officials as Subrata Shib, who is from CPI-M agriculture Dept’s branch Secretary is posted in Krishi Bhawan since his Job career’s starting. Apart from that  Parikshit Roy , Sibu Prashad Majumder,  Dhrubajyoti Paul, Sumit Bhattacharya , Prabir Majumder , Abhijit Roy ,  Sandeep Som , Sukhlaal Baidya , Debasish Sarkar, Fani  Bhushan Jamatia , Buddhadev Acharjee , Tamal Saha ( Group D) , Rajib Debbarma, Tridip Bhattacharya( Asstt prof. Agriculture clz), Sourav Das( Asstt prof. Agriculture clz) Hoimanti Chakraborty ( wife of Krishnendu Chakraborty ,  SP Khowai), Jui roy ,Dipankar Dey , Debabrata Majumder, Priyabrata Baidya and few others have been the extra beneficiaries either in posting or other facilities under the CPI-M era. 

A reshuffling in the agriculture dept is also needed on urgent basis. Who can forget how Director of Agriculture Dept D P Sarkar’s official phone was used to threaten the   graduates of Agriculture Dept who demanded their rights for being employed in ‘fair means’.

For increasing the area of organic product Central govt had started many schemes like PKVY (Paramparagata Krishi Vikash Yojna), MOVCDNER (Mission Organic for Value Chain Development in NE Region etc were launched. The true spirit of the scheme is to boost the default organic area of state under Jhum cultivation and value chain system for proper marketing of such product. But the Dept of Agriculture and its incompetent officers led a dark era of Tripura Agriculture.