Source: The Sangai Express / Addie Chiphang
Ukhrul, October 31:
The Ukhrul District Fair Price Shops (FPS Rice Agents) have strongly reacted over the recent news report in local dailies on October 25 regarding siphoning of rice quota of two months meant for Ukhrul district.
The report that Ukhrul AAY rice for the month of August and September 2007 had been siphoned-off allegedly by some individuals and the claim have no knowledgeable reasons, said the Ukhrul FPS Agents Association in a press communique today.
According to FPS Chairman Mr.HA.
Ashang and other executive members the allegation of Ukhrul's rice quantum missing unnecessarily drags the FPS Association and paints the Association in bad light.
Washing its hands off the murky episode, the Association insisted that rice quota in Ukhrul is being issued regularly so far as the rice agents in all the Fair Price shops in the District have been distributing periodically through the announcement in the news papers.
The Association further clarified that for the last two months i.e.August and September, the rice distribution notification for deserving Card Holders had been formally published on well ahead of the distribution dates in all the local dailies.