Chandigarh: Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department and Tribal Affairs Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today called upon Food and Civil Supplies Minister in Punjab Government Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon at Chandigarh and discuss various issues related to supply of quality food grains, National Food Security Act and digitalization of data.
The meeting was held in the office chamber of Food and Civil Supplies Minister of Punjab in which a variety of issues were discussed. A major issue pertaining to supply of quality food grains to J&K and implementation of NFSA in the state was mainly focused.
Showing sincerity on supply of quality food grains for the people of his state, Zulfkar discussed modalities of procuring food grains directly from the Punjab market (Mandies) instead of Food Corporation of India. He said that he is not going to compromise on the quality of food grains and he had earlier conveyed his dissatisfaction over the low quality of food grains supplied by Food Corporation of India to Jammu & Kashmir. He said that he will not allow sub standard food grains for his people as the issue is directly linked with the health of human being and he cannot compromise on the issue of human health. He said that he want supply of standard quality of rice, wheat and sugar for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and even after repeated communications to FCI, nothing was improved on ground. If FCI will remain stick to supply of same food grains, we will stop procurement from the FCI and supply food grains directly from the Mandies of Punjab, Minister requesting Food and Civil Supplies Minister of Punjab to help Jammu and Kashmir in this regard so that people of the state also get access to quality food grains.
In the meeting, Implementation of NFSA in J&K, exclusion, inclusion criteria, implication if enactment were discussed in detail. The issue relating to making the entire food chain management in the state fully digitized was also discussed.
During deliberations, issue of minimizing pilferages in the state and providing of packed food grains for a period of six months to the consumers at one time in the remote areas and snow bound areas were discussed in detail.
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