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NFSA implementation in haste, wrong move by BJP-PDP : Sham Lal 3/14/2016 10:22:00 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 14: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee senior vice president and Ex Minister Sham Lal Sharma said that the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) should not deprive any individual or bonafide family of the existing quota of ration being availed by them as the people of the state could not afford to do without ration in view of the sufferings undergone by them during two and half decades of turmoil in the Jammu & Kashmir. In a press release issued today, Sham Lal said that the Food Security Act was a land mark Legislation of the Congress led UPA government at the Centre, but the Congress-NC coalition government in the state did not go ahead for its immediate implementation without sorting out the shortfall as there was a genuine apprehension that a large section of people would get deprived of the existing scale of ration in the state. "The then government took up the issue with the Centre to sort out the shortfalls and shortcomings so that the people did not suffer on this count," he said. He regretted that the PDP-BJP government totally failed to sort out the shortfalls in this regard and was making false claims whereas it failed to provide sugar and ration to the people even as per the existing scales since it came to power. He also said Jammu & Kashmir has the largest percentage of BPL as compare to other states of India, moreover, large number of people of J&K lives in hilly terrain and it is a food deficit state. PDP BJP government took the decision to implement NFSA without going into the depth and didn't focus much on the preliminary work to be done for its successful implementation. Today the same BJP PDP ministers including Ex Dy CM Nirmal Singh are seen regretting their hasteful decision of implementing NFSA. Urging Governor to ensure ration to the people on the same analogy they have been getting since decades, Congress leader called for revisiting the Food Security Act.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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