SHILLONG: There are allegations of denial of ration cards and PDS items to BPL families, whose names figured in the 2002 BPL list from the village of Pynter, falling under Pynursla Block and Nongmadan, falling under Mylliem Block in East Khasi Hills District.
Due to the denial of ration cards, the villagers are not able to avail any of the BPL schemes or PDS items. After submitting a memorandum to the Principal Secretary, C&RD, K.N. Kumar, CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing on Monday said that there are about 30 households living below the poverty line in Pynter village under Pynursla Block and Nongmadan village under Mylliem Block, all of whom are enlisted in the 2002 BPL list but have been denied their ration cards and the actual quota of essential commodities for all these years. They are at times given only 6-10 kg of rice per month when their actual quota is 35 kg per month, Kharshiing alleged.
According to Kharshiing, the organisation fails to understand why the Government pays the Gramsevaks when they fail to do justice to the work they are allotted as they should have inquired and inspected the status of the families who are in real need of the ration cards to be able to avail PDS items.
“It has also come to our notice that in the BPL 2002 list of the Lashkein Block, there are names of rich people who are also working in various Government departments and an inquiry into this effect is urgently needed. This is a grave misdeed, where the needy are deprived while the rich find a place in the list of the BPL,” she said in the memorandum, while demanding an inquiry into the matter.