Yash Khajuria 7/25/2011 8:03:01 PM
JAMMU, July 25: While Jammu and Kashmir is facing shortage of 5500 metric tons of ration per month and people have to wait for days together for their turn to get ration, residents of Narwal pain, Satwari near Jammu Airport have accused the local ration depot owner of ‘black marketing’ of ration.
Local people have alleged that the said ration dealer gives only 25 kilogram of ration instead of allowed 35 kg of ration to a ration card holder of APL category, and by which he put aside 10 kg ration by each ration card holder and sell this ration illegally to those who offers more price to him.
They said that on demanding ration as set on each ration card the depot owner declined arguing that it is due to the less supply of ration by the concerned department.
Pertinently, people also claimed that the most of the ration card holder does not prefer to take ration specially Rice from the ration depot despite of that he does not offer required ration to those who could not able to purchase ration on retail prices.
One of the local residents at the condition of anonymity has disclosed that earlier he himself also purchased ration by the depot owner at excess rates since the ration fixed on card is not sufficient to his family, but last time when he went to purchase ration to the depot owner he demanded too much price to he purchased before.
However Minister for Consumer Affair, Qamar Ali Akhoon was not available for the comment as he failed to respond to the repeated calls.
It is unambiguous that the gluttony of the depot holder is increasing day by day, now it is a million dollars question that if there is no authority to control this black marketing by the depot owners then why government has opened these rations depots for show off and making fool of the public.
However a senior bureaucrat said that it is not the shortage which has created crisis, but the ‘ghost rationees’ who constitute nearly 10 per cent of the card holders are main culprit of this scarcity. “Priority should be to identify the fake card holders. They are like sharks who gallop the food grains meant for the general population in connivance with some corrupt officials from the department”, he alleged.
A total of 60 lakh souls are getting ration from the depots of the CAPD Department across the Jammu and Kashmir. At present there are nearly 6000 sale depots functioning across the three region of the state, which are proving insufficient to meet the demands of the people getting ration through Public Distribution System (PDS)
Local people have alleged that the said ration dealer gives only 25 kilogram of ration instead of allowed 35 kg of ration to a ration card holder of APL category, and by which he put aside 10 kg ration by each ration card holder and sell this ration illegally to those who offers more price to him.
They said that on demanding ration as set on each ration card the depot owner declined arguing that it is due to the less supply of ration by the concerned department.
Pertinently, people also claimed that the most of the ration card holder does not prefer to take ration specially Rice from the ration depot despite of that he does not offer required ration to those who could not able to purchase ration on retail prices.
One of the local residents at the condition of anonymity has disclosed that earlier he himself also purchased ration by the depot owner at excess rates since the ration fixed on card is not sufficient to his family, but last time when he went to purchase ration to the depot owner he demanded too much price to he purchased before.
However Minister for Consumer Affair, Qamar Ali Akhoon was not available for the comment as he failed to respond to the repeated calls.
It is unambiguous that the gluttony of the depot holder is increasing day by day, now it is a million dollars question that if there is no authority to control this black marketing by the depot owners then why government has opened these rations depots for show off and making fool of the public.
However a senior bureaucrat said that it is not the shortage which has created crisis, but the ‘ghost rationees’ who constitute nearly 10 per cent of the card holders are main culprit of this scarcity. “Priority should be to identify the fake card holders. They are like sharks who gallop the food grains meant for the general population in connivance with some corrupt officials from the department”, he alleged.
A total of 60 lakh souls are getting ration from the depots of the CAPD Department across the Jammu and Kashmir. At present there are nearly 6000 sale depots functioning across the three region of the state, which are proving insufficient to meet the demands of the people getting ration through Public Distribution System (PDS)
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