Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 14: Former Minister and senior PCC leader Sham Lal Sharma has said that the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) should not deprive any individual or bonafide family of the existing quota of ration being availed by them as the people of the State could not afford to do without ration in view of the sufferings undergone by them during two and half decades of turmoil in the Jammu & Kashmir.
In a press statement here today Sham Lal said that the NFSA was a land mark legislation of the Congress led UPA Government, but the Congress-NC coalition in the State did not go ahead for its immediate implementation without sorting out the shortfall as there was a genuine apprehension that a large section of people would get deprived of the existing scale of ration. The then Government took up the issue with the Centre to sort out the shortcomings so that the people did not suffer.
He regretted that the PDP-BJP totally failed to sort out the shortfalls in this regard and was making false claims whereas, it failed to provide sugar and ration to the people even as per the existing scales since it came to power. He also said Jammu & Kashmir has the largest percentage of BPL as compared to other states of India, PDP- BJP Govt took the decision to implement NFSA without going into the depth and didn’t focus much on the preliminary work to be done for its successful implementation.
The Congress leader said that decision to implement the NFSA in haste without proper and systematic homework as well as examining the implications of its implementation in the present form, was the credit taking exercise of the PDP-BJP Govt.
Urging Governor to ensure ration to the people on the same analogy they have been getting since decades, PCC leader called for revisiting the Food Security Act as it has become a contemptuous issue in its present form.
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