EMN
Dimapur, February 8
Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has urged the governor to immediately set up a’ High Level Enquiry Committee’ and take action against those officials from Food & Civil Supplies Department and the alleged suppliers who are involved in the PDS rice scam in Mokokchung district and that the enquiry report be made public within a month’s time.
The NPCC in a memorandum to the governor pointed out that the recent exposure of alleged black marketing of ‘PDS Rice’ in Mokokchung during the raid conducted by the district administration and police where suspected pilfered rice in huge quantity were found in private godowns.
NPCC Working President P.Ayang Aonok said, “That in 2015 we have come across people making hue and cry on K oil distribution but the Food & Civil Supplies Department remain silent on the issue. That the present issue is not an isolated case happening in the Mokokchung district, but the same practice is reportedly happening in Dimapur and other districts where PDS rice are hardly sold to the deserving people under ‘below poverty line’ and the PDS rice are sold in the open market at the exorbitant price.”
The NPCC said the food & civil supplies department has to take responsibility of the recent scam as it was within their knowledge that the alleged suppliers were committing the mal-practices in dealing with PDS rice.
