THATHRI: Senior Congress lawmaker, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori on Saturday handed over the new ration cards among the beneficiaries at BDO office premises.
ACR Kishtwar Mohammad Sayeed Khan, Tehsildar Drabshalla Tanveer Ul Majeed Wani, BDO Drabshalla Dr. Nasir, TSO Drabshalla Liyakat Ali, ZEO Drabshallah Bhagwan Das Sharma, Incharge SI Yugraj, other sectoral officers besides local Congress workers, prominent citizen were present on the occasion.
Saroori said keeping in view the dietary patterns of people in the Chenab Valley Government must announce and implement double the ration quota than now, that would ensure that people would get in total double the food grains as envisaged under NFSA. He previous Government of NC & Congress did not applied NFSA in Jammu and Kashmir through the NFS Act adopted by many other States few years ago as the Act suited them well. J&K State has its own special status and being crop cold region and Scheduled Tribes populated area, the quantum of ration scales be increased to 10 kgs per head per month instead of 5 kgs per head.
He also called upon the people to get rectified if any irregularities in the ration cards from the CAPD official by completing all formalities. He has also distributed the invoice worth Rs. 20 lakhs for the developmental work in Drabshallah block.
Earlier Saroori handed over the regularisation orders to 13 ReT teachers of education zone Chatroo who have completed their five years of service as ReT at a function organized by ZEO Chatroo at Dak Bungalow Chatroo.
SDM Chatroo Masood Ahmed Qazi, ZEO Inderwal Jagan Nath, ZEPO Chatroo Fateh Mohd Ahanger, Ghulam Hassan Butt, Rifaz Malik, Mudassir Wani and others were present on the occasion.
Earlier Saroori participated in the Nimaaz-e-Jinazah of Imam Jamia Masjid Thathri Bashir Ahmed Zargar. Saroori along with local Congress leaders also spent time with the family members of the deceased and expressed their solidarity with them, a statement issued here said.