Transportation of food-grains

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SRINAGAR: Minister for CA&PD and Tribal Affairs Department, Ch Zulfkar Ali today asked the Transport Department to ensure availability of adequate transport facility for timely lifting and moving of food-grains to different parts of the State.

The Minister said this at a joint meeting of CA&PD and Transport Departments convened here to hash-out the issues pertaining to seasonable transportation and early dispatch of rations to different parts of the State, especially the far-flung areas.

Minister for Transport Abdul Ghani Kohli was also present in the meeting.

Stressing the need for providing adequate fleet of SRTC trucks to CA&PD as and when requisitioned, the Minister said that effectual and timely distribution of food-grains to different destinations across the State is entirely dependent on efficient transportation facilities.

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The officers of the concerned departments should work in close coordination and synergy to ensure adequate and timely transportation of rations to the remote and far-flung areas so that people living in these areas dont face shortage of food-grains and other essentials, he said and added that special focus should be on fair-weather areas and a strategy should worked out for these as well.

Expressing serious concern over the damage being caused to the food-grains due to inordinate delay in availability of transportation facility, the Ministers asked the officers to explore a viable mechanism to tackle the same and come up with apt corrective measures.

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