Rajya Sabha MP and BJP chief Ram Mokariya has raised the problem of “inferior” high quality of meals grains being distributed to the beneficiaries beneath the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKY) earlier than Rajkot District Collector Prabhav Joshi. He has sought a probe into “detecting the leakage” that led to alleged adulteration within the grains.
He positioned samples of rice, dal, wheat and gram sourced from beneficiaries earlier than the Collector on the assembly of the civil provides co-ordination committee held in Rajkot on Saturday. These conferences are held on the third Saturday each month.
Mokariya, who is predicated in Rajkot, advised The Indian Specific, “Our Prime Minister Narendrabhai has determined to supply free meals grains to 80 crore poor within the nation however why ought to they not get high quality grains? The samples I took as proof have been of very poor high quality, the grains both had worms or have been inferior just like the rice grains have been damaged, the chana was of smaller dimension and so forth. “
“My illustration was that there ought to be an investigation into the place the leakage is, is it on the FCI (Meals Company of India) or on the retailers? Whoever is accountable ought to be taken to job”. The free distribution scheme that was began through the pandemic was prolonged, and can proceed for 5 years from January 1, 2024 protecting about 81.35 crore beneficiaries.
