Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, May 18: District Congress Committee Leh projected the issue of National Food Security Act and reservation in promotions in various Government jobs here today.
A meeting of DCC, Leh was held in which MLA Nawang Rigzin Jora, former MP P. Namgyal, former PLC & vice President PCC Norbu Gailchan, former CEC Rigzin Spalbar, Councillors Tsering Norbu, Thusptan Angchok, Morup Dorjai, District Youth Congress president Tsering Namgyal, District Mahilla Congress president Rinchen Dolkar, many Sarpanchs, Block Congress Committee members and its frontal organisations participated. The meeting was presided over by the DCC president Tsering Samphel.
The meeting dwelled on two burning issues confronted by the public at the moment regarding the reservation in promotions of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes and the application of National Food Security Act in Jammu and Kashmir state.
While speaking in the meeting Mr Jora informed that rejection of quotas for reserved communities in promotions in J&K State caused due to the lackadaisical handling by the present PDP and BJP Government in the High Court. He informed that he has moved an private member Bill as MLA in the coming Assembly session for restoration of the reservation in promotion to the reserved communities.
Regarding application of National Food Security Act in Jammu & Kashmir, Jora said previous Government of NC & Congress not applied it in the State through the NFS Act adopted by many other States few years ago as the Act suited them well. J&K State has its own special status. The meeting unanimously decided to convey the Government that Ladakh being crop cold desert region and Scheduled Tribes populated area, the quantum of ration scales be increased to 13 kgs per head per month. The meeting further expressed its anxiety and sorrow over the haphazard and slow execution of the beautification projects particularly on Leh Fort Road and old road thereby causing extreme inconvenience to the commuters and to those in tourist trade.
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