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| Government to start distribution of pulses through post offices | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 15: To keep a check on hoarding and black marketing of pulses across the country, the Union Government will soon start distribution of pulses through post offices.
"In the past, we have seen that the cost of pulses increased manifold due to black marketing and hoarding so the Union Government has decided to sell pulses through post offices whenever the need arises," Minister of Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan told reporters in Jammu today.
He said post offices were spread in the entire length and breadth of the country and can easily be used for the purpose of selling pulses at government rates.
"There is a huge network of post offices in the country, every village has a post office and whenever the need arises, we can use them to sell pulses. The required infrastructure is already available with the Centre and decision in this regard has already been taken," he said.
The government has taken various measures against hoarders and black marketers due to which the prices of pulses have come down, he said.
The Government has started the process of linking the Aadhaar cards with ration card and so far 69 per cent of the task has been completed. He said so far two crore fake ration cards have been detected across the country.
"In big malls and in airlines they don't have any MRP written on the product, we will make sure that consumers do not have to pay more than the cost of the product," he said.
Meanwhile he also said that Terrorism is the main cause of the ongoing unrest in Kashmir. While we are pained to see that innocent youth are killed after they are threatened by terrorists to throw stones at the security forces, it should be left to the army and the state government to deal with the situation," he told reporters here.
Noting that many people who had till now been living in the Kashmir Valley are going to other places to live a peaceful life, Paswan said that all problems in Kashmir would end once terrorism ended. The Minister also criticised the separatist leaders for their treatment of some members of the all party delegation who had tried to call on them.
Replying a question on holding talks with the separatists, Paswan said the separatists will have to first accept that talks would be held within the ambit of the Indian Constitution. "Till the time you (separatists) raise Pro-Pakistani slogans and their flags, there is no point holding talks," he said. On the controversy raised by the opposition on the surgical strikes by the Indian army, Paswan said after Uri terror attack, the opposition had been ridiculing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and when time came to praise him, the opposition was feeling shy of doing so. He said the army should be left out of politics and it should be given a free hand in dealing with terrorism |
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