PDS system defunct in Jammu and Kashmir due to corruption: CPI(M)

The Jammu and Kashmir chapter of CPI(M) today alleged that the Public Distribution System(PDS) has become defunct in the state due to corruption.
   
"Peoples concerns are being ignored and PDS has got defunct in the state.. government seems in no mood to infuse responsiveness and accountability in its machinery to solve the problems of the people," CPI(M) leader MY Tarigami said in a statement.
   
Tarigami alleged that the working of the PDS was "too corrupt" and there are "instances of pilferages and bungling day in and day out".
   
"Such a trend of malpractices was causing scarcities, black-marketing, hoarding and profiteering, thereby telling upon the economies of the common man," he said.
   
Urging the Omar Abdullah-led state government to take immediate measures for arranging required stocks of ration from the Centre to benefit the uncovered population, Tarigami said "hunger cannot wait".
   
He alleged that encouraging the corporate sector at the cost agriculture was satiating the interest of a minor section and said this must not happen in a developing economy which is dependable on the agriculture and allied sectors.