Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 18: Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, today criticized Government over implementing National Food Security Act (NFSA) and proposed hike in power tariff in the State.
Addressing a large gathering of people before the Friday congregation prayer at historic Jamia Masjid here, the Mirwaiz said normally a single person consumes around 400 gram of rice a day, which totals up to 12 kg per month and th us the requirement of ration for a family of three becomes around 1200 gram or 1.2 kilogram per day, which totals up to 36 kg per month.
“As per the new arrangement under NFSA, they would be getting only 15 kilogram which is less than half of the actual requirement thus they would be compelled to purchase the rest of the ration from the open market at very exorbitant price, a cumbersome burden on the common average families,” the moderate separatist.
He alleged that the Government was camouflaging its anti-people decisions and confusing the people by making priority and non-priority sectors in food distribution thus complicating the problems for the consumers whereas a substantial numbers of population had completely been left outside the system.
Suggesting that the demand of the people seeking 35 kg ration per family that they used to get before the implementation of NFSA in the State was just, Mirwaiz said that the Government should understand the problem and continue with the past practice of ration distribution.
The moderate separatist termed the recent announcement of 17 percent hike in power tariff by the Jammu Kashmir State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JKSERC) for the year 2016 as anti-people and a tyrannical decision. “This act of the Government would make Kashmiri people suffer all the more,” he said.
Alleging that several Government departments are major defaulters of the Power Development Department, Mirwaiz termed this decision as completely biased against the common people. He said people who already had been suffering badly as the result of 2014 floods that plunged all their businesses in different sectors were now being victimized more with these anti-people policies.
He said people would not stay silent over ‘such cruel behavior on the part of the Government and would rise against these anti-people acts of the Government.’
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