PDS flour
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 02 2012:
Although flour is also included in the list of items to be distributed under Public Distribution System (PDS), people usually do not complain even if they do not get it.
On the otherhand, many people even do not know that flour is also a PDS item.
However, in Thangmeiband A/C, MLA Kh Joykishan today made his people understand that flour could also be demanded from the respective agents by distributing the said the item to the people of his A/C.Under his direct supervision, 5 kgs of flour was distributed per ration card holder at Rs 10 per kg at Major Khul, Dharmashala, and Rupmahal Tank.
In this regard, MLA Joykishan said, since past many years, some Government officials in connivance with some businessmen have been earning huge amounts of money as people take less concern about the getting flour from their PDS agents.
The MLA added, today's distribution in his A/C was possible as the matter of non-distribution of flour became an issue after it was brought on the floor of the State Assembly.
Vowing to work further to demand the entitled rights of the people, Kh Joykishan also exhorted the people of other A/Cs to raise against the authority concerned for their quota of PDS flour.
Some officials and businessmen are being given free hand to earn private income through PDS as people remain silent on such corrupted practices, he added.
People who got flour through PDS for the first time at various distribution points lauded MLA Joykishan for his courageous work.