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| State Government clueless about missing ration of thousands of quintals from Budgam | | |
Mir Farhat
SRINAGAR, June 5: The state government has no clue as to what has happened to the thousands of quintals of rice that went missing from Food Corporation of India's godown from Central Kashmir's Budgam district last year.
Immediately after the then NC-led government announced free ration for six months for the flood affected people in the state, 51 trucks of rice, totaling about 10,000 quintals, were 'stolen' by the Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution (CAPD) department officials and 'sold in black market, sources in CAPD told Early Times.
The then chief minister Omar Abdullah had announced free ration of 210 kilos to each family for six months after floods devastated the state.
Surprisingly, the new government which claimed to unearth all the wrong doings of its predecessor before public has wrapped it under the carpet. So much so that the CA&PD minister Choudhary Zulfikar Ali does not know about the missing ration even three months after assuming charge.
Sources said that the previous government pressured the CAPD top brass not to go for inquiry into the missing rice.
"Almost nine months have gone by after the rice went missing, nobody is talking about it. Even the new dispenation is silent over it," sources said.
Sources said that no file or report exists in the CA&PD about the scam even as the then Director Bilal Ahmad had assured probe into the missing rice.
An official, who did not want to be named as he was not authorized to speak to media, said that announcing probe before media was an exercise meant to cool down the public anger.
The then CAPD Director Bilal Ahmad had at Banquet Hall in Srinagar assured the media of a probe into the rice scam.
"It is a big scam running into lakhs of quintals of rice. Budgam missing trucks were tip of an iceberg. Similar missing reports were then received from other districts too. But nobody in the new regime is talking about the scam," the official said.
He said that if the present regime stands by its promises then it must order probe into the issue and find who are the real 'thieves' in CAPD who stole the public ration. |
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