Holding red flags and placards in their hands, hundreds of CPI (M) activists staged protest march from Green belt Park, Gandhinagar towards Div Com Office protesting against the discrepancies in the National Food Security Act (NFSA).The activists were raising slogan against the shortcomings in NFSA which has deprived large portion of the population from the coverage of the Act keeping the interests of the general public in mind.While addressing the protectors, Sham Prasad Kesar, Regional Secretary, CPI(M), Jammu stressed on the need to streamline the list of beneficiaries and has urged the Governor to include the deprived sections of the people of the state for coverage under NFSA.
He exhorted that the private members resolution moved by the CPI(M) MLA, M. Y. Tarigami passed unanimously in the State Legislative Assembly in August, 2014 in respect of provision of 35kgs of food grains per family @ Rs.2/- per kg be implemented in the state. The section of population born after 2011 be also covered under the ACT. He said there are huge discrepancies in the list compiled by the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department(CAPD) and without streamlining its database, a huge section of the people will be rendered dispossessed of the CAPD services.Om Prakash General Secretary CITU demanded that wheat should be immediately replaced by the floor (Atta) as wheat is not acceptable to the people.Among others, Kishore Kumar, President, JK Kisan Tehreek, Banarassi Dass, Sohan Lal, Sewa Ram, V.K.Vaid and M.L.Raina, senior CPM leaders also addressed the protestors. (KNS)