[Reader-list] RTF (Right to Food) Articles - 14

[Rakesh Iyer]

Source: The Hindu

Date: Friday, Mar 11, 2005

Link: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/03/11/stories/2005031115880300.htm

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* Fair price shop sealed after protest *

By Our Staff Reporter

 NEW DELHI, MARCH 10. Following an agitation by hundreds of residents of
Vikaspuri and New J.J. Colony Hastasal, under the banner of Delhi Shramik
Sangathan, the Food and Supplies Department has sealed the fair price shop
located in Circle 27 for having failed to supply rations and kerosene oil to
ration card holders despite directions by the Government in this regard.

The residents had staged a protest in front of the office of the Food Supply
Officer, Circle 27, recently to convey their strong resentment at not
getting their requisite quota of food grains and kerosene oil from the fair
price shop no. 2718 Khandelwal Store. Following an inspection by the
Assistant Commissioner (West) Ravi Kant, who found the store not adhering to
norms laid down by the Department, the shop was sealed and people of the
area were promised a new fair price shop that would be allotted to the
people of the area.

Earlier, the community people holding Antodaya, Below Poverty Line and
Annapoorna cards had highlighted the malfunctioning of the fair price shop,
which they alleged had not been functioning as per norms thus denying them
their right to food.

To make the administration understand their problem, the residents got
together and sat on the dharna. Under pressure from the people, the Food
Supply Officer of the area informed the gathering that the shopkeeper had
been issued a show cause notice and a strict warning.

However, when this did not deter the store owner, the authorities went ahead
and cancelled his allotment, according to Delhi Shramik Sangathan.