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| Ensure universal public distribution system: CPI (M) | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 2: CPI (M) today held a protest demonstration at Partap Park Srinagar on issues related to food security.
Hundreds of activists carrying banners and placards took part in the demonstration, raising demands that include no BPL or APL-ensure a universal public distribution system, 35 kg of food grains at a maximum rate of two rupees a kilo per family per month, distribute the huge 8 crore ton food grain stocks by increasing allocations immediately and scrap the Planning Commission's highly dubious poverty estimates.
Addressing the protesters, State Secretary CPI (M) M. Y. Tarigami said that the proposed food legislation will lead not to food security, but to food insecurity.
Highlighting the government's apathy towards the poor he said that its unwillingness to spend a meager 1 percent of the GDP for ensuring food security to the people shows its real concern for poor, on contrary, it prefers to give tax concessions worth Rs 5 Lakh Crore in a single year to big business and corporate houses.
Criticizing the specific proposals to limit food security benefits to those whom the Planning Commission declares to be "below poverty Line", he said that such an aggregate only represents massive statistical underestimation.
The present poverty line figures of Rs 26 a day for adult in rural India and Rs 32 in urban India continues to be the basis for access to PDS, which means larger sections of the poor will be legally excluded from the right to food.
Expressing deep concern over the relentless rise in the prices of essential commodities, he said that persistent rise in food prices, which puts food out of reach of a vast majority of the people, serves to worsen the situation.
Others who spoke on the occasion include CPI (M) leaders Ghulam Nabi Malik, Abdul Hameed Wani, Ghulam Mohiudin Lone and Mohammad Afzal Parry.
The leaders asked the government to focus on improvement of power scenario in view of growing dependence on the energy sector and rising public discontent against the erratic power supply across the state. |
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