Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 16: Congress has questioned the failure of the Govt to provide free ration to the residents as announced by the Government last month.
Congress expressed anguish over the indifferent attitude of the authorities in J&K Union Territory Administration towards the stranded people in different regions within J&K and outside, besides those waiting at the Kathua borders even after completing their quarantine periods.
Questioning the Govt for delay in disbursement of the free supply of ration even after more than three weeks of the lockdown, the Party said the free ration should have been distributed immediately among the poor people who are without any earnings and finding difficult to purchase essential food items.
JKPCC Chief GA Mir has said that the stranded people are receiving curt treatment at the hands of Administration both within and outside Union Territory and there is total arbitrary exercise of power, so confusion at various levels. After completing necessary quarantine periods, the Govt should have shifted such stranded people immediately, but that is not the case.
Mir, however, lauded the Punjab Government for making satisfactory arrangements and conveyed gratitude to the authorities of Punjab administration.
He regretted certain undesirable incidents with the stranded people by certain miscreants in Himachal Pradesh and sought appropriate action against the culprits.
The Party said that the measures of the Union Territory Administration with the stranded people outside J&K were quite inadequate causing lot of sufferings to the residents of J&K in other states.
Regretting the unsympathetic attitude of the authorities towards their own people looking for help from their administration, Mir said, the UT administration should have appointed nodal officers for each state to help the stranded people.
Mir sought immediate disbursement of free ration to all poor people and more financial support to the poor strata of the society besides release of pending wages to different categories of poor workers.
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