Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct, 21: Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Jammu Amit Sharma visited Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar area and reviewed the food-grain supply and winter stocks dumping position in snow bound areas of these hilly districts.
The director concluded extensive tour of these three hilly districts today in which he took first hand account of dumping food-grains supplies to higher reaches of these districts. He was accompanied by Assistant Directors Zakir Hussain (Doda), Abdul Rasheed (Kishtwar) and Ghulam Rasool Lone (Ramban) along with concerned TSOs and Storekeepers during respective field visits.
During the three-day tour, major focus of the Director was on ascertaining on-ground status of provisioning and dumping of food-grains and civil supplies in higher reaches of Chenab Valley such as Marwan, Warwan, Dacchan, Padder, Mohu, Mangat, Neel Valley, Pogal Paristan, Gool, Sangaldan, Chhatroo well in-time before the onset of severe winter months. All the Assistant Directors assured the Director that the dumping is going before time and the same process shall be completed in all belts in next few days.
During the visit food stores of Chenab region especially, Mati Goran which is actually located in Anantnag but feeds Marwan and Warwan areas of Kishtwar, it was found that all stocks had been released for onward transportation to these higher reaches which almost remain cut-off due to excessive snowfall every year for almost four-five months.
He also held meetings with Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar Angrez Singh Rana and DC Ramban, Showkat Aijaz wherein, several coordination issues were discussed. Apart from this, Sharma took review meetings at all three district headquarters wherein the overall performance of department was assessed vis-a-vis several issues such as Aadhaar seeding with POS machines, repairs of Gowdowns of the department, preparation of disaster management plans, revising K.Oil supplies in the districts, timely submission of all reports, etc.
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