Thursday, May 17, 2012

Jogi hails double ration allocation to poor by Centre


Raipur, May 14, 2012

Former chief minister Ajit Jogi has hailed Congress-led UPA government’s decision of doubling ration allocation for APL and BPL families. “The Centre’s decision is certainly give relief to the financially weaker section of the society,” said Jogi.
He praised the UPA bringing Food Security Bill and termed it a revolutionary decision that would produce anticipated outcome in coming years.
He also appreciated the Centre for increasing the minimum support price (MSP) on oilseeds and pulses.
“The Centre is making all efforts to extend its help to the farmers by frequently hiking the MSPs of food grains. It has also hiked the MSP of paddy and is taking paddy from the states including Chhattisgarh at the rate of Rs 2200 per quintal,” he said.
“Besides, the provision of rice, wheat, sugar, kerosene and domestic LPG to the poor under public distribution system (PDS) is the Centre’s scheme. However, the ruling state government is claiming all the Central schemes as its own and misleading people,” he alleged.
He pointed that recent incident of Patan development block (Durg district) where about stock of 200 quintal rice from fair price shops was found less.
“The huge amount of rice was take out from the fair price shops by the PDS contractors who have nexus with the BJP,” he alleged and said the government should quickly take measures to check such incidents and ensure the poor get benefit of the schemes launched for them.



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