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CPI urges Centre, state to implement food security Act
The Communist Party of India (CPI) demanded that the State government implement National Food Security System Act and distribute rice, wheat, sugar, pulses, sweet oil, salt, tea powder, tamarind, onions, turmeric, chilli powder and kerosene at affordable prices to the poor.
Wants State government to distribute essential commodities to the poor at affordable prices
Hyderabad: The Communist Party of India (CPI) demanded that the State government implement National Food Security System Act and distribute rice, wheat, sugar, pulses, sweet oil, salt, tea powder, tamarind, onions, turmeric, chilli powder and kerosene at affordable prices to the poor.
Speaking at the State conference of Telangana State Civil Supplies Hamalies’ Union, affiliated to All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), here on Monday, CPI State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy said the State and Central governments had to work in tandem to increase the food crops production and provide pure daily essential goods at low prices through Civil Supplies Department by implementing Food Security Act.
He also made it clear that the CPI would launch a movement till the government implemented Food Security Scheme properly.AITUC State general secretary N Balaraj, president T Narasimhan and general secretary Ujjini Ratnakar Rao also addressed the conference and demanded that the State government continue the national food production distribution scheme,
distribute 14 types of daily essential goods through ration shops, implement ESI Act through GO to Civil Supplies Hamalies, provide minimum wages to sweepers, security guards along with PF, ESI, bonus and Janasri Beema Scheme by providing identity cards, not remove security guards, construct own godowns, give assurance of providing living security to the ration shop dealers and appoint them as government employees,
pay Rs 10,000 as bonus, provide Rs 3,000 pension per month to the ration dealers and hamalies who completed 50 years, construct double-bedroom houses to hamalies and bring comprehensive welfare Act for the sake of Hamali workers.
