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Kupwara villages san essentials on eve of Chill-i-kalan | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Dec 19: Day before the Chill-i-kalan commences, local residents in various remote areas of Kupwara district in this north Kashmir are suffering for want of essentials commodities like ration, Kerosene and LPG. According to local residents of Cheerkote, and other areas that they are facing shortage of essential commodities like Ration, Sugar, Kerosene and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) as supplies could not reach to their villages due to black Marketing. People from various areas telephoned Early Times and said that they are lacking of essentials in their areas, harsh winter/Chill-i-kalan is at its threshold and we are very much worried of stocking food items for winter, they said. Residents of scores of villages in this border district are reeling under severe ration shortage and are thus facing infinity problems. The villages where there is a shortage of ration include Warnaw, Lassipora, Ridnag, Takipora and other adjacent areas. "Winter has almost started in Kashmir and that too early in the hilly areas, from last two months we are facing hardships, influential people doesn't allow theses loading trucks to reach in our areas, and for their self interests they do the black marketing of kerosene and LPG cylinders and finally we the common people suffers a lot, Abdul Ahad of Lassipora told early times. "If essential commodities were not made available in the coming week, we will be forced to come on roads against the department," said Fayaz Ahmad of Ridnag. People in hilly areas are reeling under shortage of ration, Black Marketing is on rise and CAPD department is in a deep slumber and later the department says the ration depots are lying empty, how come it is true, Fayaz alleged. However a senior official from Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department Kupwara told early times that, "major chunk of essential food items had been distributed in various far flung areas of frontier district of Kupwara in the last month of November. People are self interested and for black-marketing, overcharging and fleecing of consumers during the harsh winter, the department will put men to task for various market checking drives in the coming days, official said. Meanwhile he said that the essential commodities like, food grains, flour, sugar had been sent to various CAPD depots in different areas of Kupwara district in the last month and there is no need to worry, as we have procured the allotted quantity of food grains for the coming months of January and February from the Food Corporation of India. |
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