Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Mar 15: The villagers from remote Galiot area, near Landhar in Pancheri tehsil of district Udhampur held protest demonstration against the District Administration and Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) department for the shortage of ration in the area.
The villagers of this remote area, bordering district Ramban alleged that there are very few ration outlets in the area. The ration arrives late and the people are not provided ration as per their quota. The AAY families are not provided sugar while PHH families are also being deprived of the ration. For over 3000-3500 population there is one depot and there was over 50 % pilferage of ration specially sugar.
They alleged that there is no supervision by the Tehsil Supply Officer or other staff and the public is badly suffering. The issue was taken up with the concerned TSO, who is posted there for the last 7-8 years but the situation did not improve. They said village Chowkidar Avtar Singh and others noticed three bags (150 kg) sugar hidden under empty gunny bags when ration dealer denied to issue to the AAY families. This created great resentment among the villagers.
They demanded that one more ration depot be opened in the area and entire staff including Salesman, Storekeeper and TSO be shifted from there and new staff be posted to break the old nexus so that entire public get ration as per their quota.
Meanwhile, Deputy Director FCS&CA, Jammu Mr Javed said that Assistant Director, concerned at Udhampur, Nassir Bhat has been asked to verify the facts and forward report to the Jammu office.
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