Imphal, November 18 2008: IN THE border town Moreh of Chandel district, the public distribution system is implementing only for the name sack as a card holder could get only 12 kgs of rice in a year.
As per disclosure made by the people of the town, PDS card holders in the town could get three to four kgs of rice within a three-month period. As such they could get only 12 kgs of rice under the PDS in a year.
The present manner of distribution of PDS items in the town where people have no enough space for cultivation is a total contrast to the expectation.
Even though they had repeatedly appealed to the authorities, the government is yet to implement is a proper manner, they said.
In the distribution of kerosene under the same programme, there is no different like that of kerosene, they lamented.
It is pertinent to mention here that the state authority under the PDS programme has been making available rice and other essential items to the PDS card holders who are divided into three categories, BPL, APL and AYL on the basis level of the family incomes.
By a household holding the card should be made available to 35 kgs of rice, three kgs of sugar, and four litres of kerosene per months under the PDS programme through the agents appointed for every wards of an Assembly constituency.
Moreh town is divided into nine wards.
There is no agent in any of the wards and only an agent from Imphal is taking responsible for distribution of these items.
The agent is also not distributing the items on monthly basis but three or four times in a year.
It also with less quantity, they said.
It has also been disclosed by some people of the area that authority had once considering the demand of the people tried to appoint agents of each wards but, it was cancelled after many people come up to become agents and there erupted a conflict among them.
Since then, it was handed over to only one agent, they added.
There is no objection from the people when authority appoint an agent of their choice, said Meetei Council Moreh, president L Ingobi but the only thing people wanted is to get the items on time and regularly.
Source: e-pao.net
Source: Hueiyen News Service / P Bishwajit
As per disclosure made by the people of the town, PDS card holders in the town could get three to four kgs of rice within a three-month period. As such they could get only 12 kgs of rice under the PDS in a year.
The present manner of distribution of PDS items in the town where people have no enough space for cultivation is a total contrast to the expectation.
Even though they had repeatedly appealed to the authorities, the government is yet to implement is a proper manner, they said.
In the distribution of kerosene under the same programme, there is no different like that of kerosene, they lamented.
It is pertinent to mention here that the state authority under the PDS programme has been making available rice and other essential items to the PDS card holders who are divided into three categories, BPL, APL and AYL on the basis level of the family incomes.
By a household holding the card should be made available to 35 kgs of rice, three kgs of sugar, and four litres of kerosene per months under the PDS programme through the agents appointed for every wards of an Assembly constituency.
Moreh town is divided into nine wards.
There is no agent in any of the wards and only an agent from Imphal is taking responsible for distribution of these items.
The agent is also not distributing the items on monthly basis but three or four times in a year.
It also with less quantity, they said.
It has also been disclosed by some people of the area that authority had once considering the demand of the people tried to appoint agents of each wards but, it was cancelled after many people come up to become agents and there erupted a conflict among them.
Since then, it was handed over to only one agent, they added.
There is no objection from the people when authority appoint an agent of their choice, said Meetei Council Moreh, president L Ingobi but the only thing people wanted is to get the items on time and regularly.
Source: e-pao.net
Source: Hueiyen News Service / P Bishwajit
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