Jammu, January 18: - Senior Congress legislator from Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori said there is need to tighten the noose on black marketing by taking stern action against the erring traders and officials.
Saroori while participating in the CAPD grants said the price control mechanism can only be strengthened in the state if black marketing on ration can be checked regularly and the department needs to take various steps to check pilferage in the public distribution system.
"Supply of floor from Udhampur store is full of adulteration and the people are not getting nutrition's that's why our children's are facing malnutrition problem and are easily pray to vulnerable diseases", Saroori said and demanded that the pure floor be supplied from the Jammu store instead of Udhampur store.
Saroori also raised many public related issues including enhancement of ration scale to 7 Kgs instead of 5 kgs per soul at the rate of Rs 2, provide ration to consumers 10th of every month instead of 20th, adjustment of dealers in government service, regularization of the services of Contractual/Daily Wagers working with the department, cancelling of license of the corrupt dealers which are involved in black-marketing which he claimed to be the biggest 'Foe' of CAPD department, clearing all the pending carriage charges including crores of liability of Doda and Kishtwar districts respectively and Private vehicle operators should be entrusted with the job of supplying of ration in the periphery of hill districts.
He further demanded enhancement of Kerosene quota for Doda and Kishtwar districts, Opening up of stores at Block level in order to facilitate easy transportation of ration to far-flung areas, demanded opening new sale and Kerosene depot’s/ at Bunjwah, Burdhar, Saroor Cheera, Sigdi Bhata, Bhagran, SheikhPura, Kuchal, Niccha Bonda, Poora Sarthal, Upper Keshwan, Naidgam, Batwari, Sheeri Pahalgam, Kendwaar, Rahal, Kherian, Singpora and other areas of Inderwal Constituency beside setting up more LPG outlets by giving priority to those areas where there is no LPG outlets.
Earlier, Mr. Saroori had heated arguments with Minister of State for Transport, Youth Services and Sports Sunil Kumar Sharma over providing Rs. 5 lacs to some blue eyed contractor for work on sports stadium at Chatroo without following the norms besides this failing intimate him.
While raising supplementary question on the issue of construction of stadiums, Congress MLA alleged, “the previous dispensation had started construction of mini-stadiums in Chatroo, Sarthal and Bunjwah areas of Kishtwar but the present dispensation has stopped the work only because the areas are being represented by opposition party”.
“Saroori said that Sharma is providing wrong and misleading information to the house. He said that the District Sports Officer has given an amount of Rs 5 lakh to an individual for construction of stadium on the directions of Minister Incharge Youth Services and Sports which according to Saroori is against the norms”, Saroori alleged.
Countering the allegations of Congress MLA, the Minister Incharge Youth Services and Sports Sunil Sharma said, “there is no formal approval to any work to which the MLA has made reference”. He said that the previous dispensation might have given few lakhs of rupees to start the `work with the sole objective of appeasing the people.
After indulging in verbal duel with the Minister for some time, the Congress MLA also waves the documents to prove his claim and stage walkout from the house in protest.
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