MLA Ranjit will continue rice provision: Committee
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kakching, July 17 2021:
Development Committee Kakching Khunou general secretary incharge and former Kakching Khunou Municipal Council councillor Thingnam Rishikesh has stated that Sugnu MLA Kangujam Ranjit will continue to provide PDS rice for the constituents of his AC by procuring from them from his pocket at the cost of Rs 5.64 lakh every month.
Speaking during distribution of edibles by the Development Committee and Covid Task Force Kakching Khunou under the aegis of the MLA to households under containment zones at Ward 1 to 9 of Kakching Khunou on Friday, Rishikesh informed that since imposition of curfew the MLA has been distributing PMGKAY rice along NFSA rice using his own funds to all the people of the AC above the age of 5 years with each person getting 7 kg of rice.
The MLA has also been providing edible items to families of Covid-19 patients for supplying the food to the patients staying at JNV Umath-el, Sugnu Guest House, Sugnu Higher Secondary School and Practical High School Serou Community Home Isolation Centres (CHICs).
He has also been providing the water for the CHICs at the cost of Rs 1500 per day from PHED along with hand sanitizers, face masks, face shields, sodium hypochlorite and medical kits to volunteers at the CHICs.
K Ranjit has also provided a bus for transporting people going for Covid testing and positive patients to respective centres, he informed.