| People suffer due to want of essential commodities in north Kashmir | | Prices of food items shoot up, authorities clueless | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 7: Most of the areas in north Kashmir districts have shortage of essential commodities and the consumers have complained that prices of food items shoot up with each passing day, as administration have failed to gear up market checking on daily basis.
According to sources that, from last couple of months people have remain tight lipped and cannot utter a word, as the shopkeepers have raise the prices of many essential commodities at their own.
During this harsh winter, one fails to understand that why there is sudden increase in the prices of essential commodities like Onion, Potato, Tomato, Nadru,Rice, Flour, Kerosene and Sugar.
Sources said that, despite arrival of hundreds of loaded trucks that were stuck on the National Highway-1 from past few days with essential items, people in rural and far flung areas of Tangdar, and Gurez are facing shortage of ration in their areas.
The government always remains unprepared to tackle various problems with related to winter in Kashmir, and it is visible they don’t store sufficient essential commodities before the onset of winter with the result people suffers a lot.
The prices of various food items get skyrocketed, besides life becomes tough and paralyzed adding that majority of depots of CA&PD at various places in north Kashmir particularly in rural and far-flung areas, are without stock for the past few days, forcing people to purchase rice and sugar from the market.
If sources are to be believed they said that, government instead of trotting out statistics should try to reach out to people and take special measures for solution of this grave problem.
However a senior official of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department Kashmir told ET that, “recently major chunk of essential food items have been stored and even though they have distributed some items in various far flung areas of frontier district of Bandipora and Kupwara.
Sometimes we can’t supply the essential items including food grains in time due to closure of highway, but there is no need to worry, as we have procured the allotted quantity of food grains for the coming months of February from the Food Corporation of India. |
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