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| People of Satwari accuse ration dealer of black marketing, demands action | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 25:
While Jammu and Kashmir is facing shortage of 5500 metric tonnes 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 did not respond despite repeated
attempts.
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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