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| Tarigami anguished over food grain ‘scarcity’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24: The state secretary, CPI (M) and MLA Kulgam M.Y. Tarigami expressed anguish over the inadequate availability of food grains in the state.
In a statement issued here today, he said that the decision of the government of India (GOI) to make an additional allocation of 10Kgs of wheat or rice to all eligible card holders under Targeted public distribution system (TPDS) is not at the present central issue price of food grains but at the higher minimum support price, will import rise into the TDPS. He said if this so-called additional allocation is to be distributed to the BPL and to Antodaya sections, a BPL card holder who gets rice at present at five rupees a kilo will have to pay five times more. In the case of wheat, BPL sections will have to pay double more and four times more in the case of Antodaya.
He said that the claims of the central government to control galloping food grains are false. Instead of restoring the 73 per cent cut in the allocations of food grains to APL sections, the central government is providing food grains at higher rates to the state.
He demands that the additional food grains be provided at central issue prices and the proposed hike of the prices in the additional allocations be withdrawn.
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