The silos with proposed capacity of 3.75 lakh MT for storing food grains will be set up at nine locations through Private Public Partnership (PPP) on design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis.
Disclosing this here, an official spokesperson said that silos are to be constructed at Ajnala (Amritsar) with a capacity of 50,000 MT, Kartarpur (Jalandhar) with a capacity of 25,000 MT, Banga with a capacity of 50,000 MT, Ajitwal (Moga) with a capacity of 50,000 MT, Phagwara (Kapurthala) with a capacity of 25,000 MT, Balachaur (Nawanshehar) with a capacity of 25,000 MT, Rupnagar (Rupnagar) with a capacity of 50,000 MT, Dharamkot (Moga) with a capacity of 50,000 MT, and Makhu (Ferozepur) with a capacity of 50,000 MT.