AGARTALA / KAILASHAHAR, Feb 24 (TIWN): Despite the food security scheme ensuring access to “quality food at affordable prices”, there is no better days for Tripura poor people. The Ministers of Tripura often visits various subdivisions to check the ongoing project works quality and boost about State Govt's various developmental works. But Tripura Food, Civil supplies and Consumers Minister Bhanulal Saha should give a sudden visit to the ration shops of Tripura to check the quality of food grains providing there. Complaints have raised against the ration shop dealers for selling very poor qualities rice grains to the BPL families.
The complain recently has come from Kailashahar that the food quality of various ration shops are below the sub-standard. However, as usual CPI-M Govt in return will blame the Centre, but question raises, when the rice come to FCI go-down why they do not check the quality?

Apart from that a high official at Kailashahar said that at Dharmanagar FCI go-down there are huge amount of rice grains left for waste, but none has any headache over it.

In this way every year quintals of rice grains are getting wasted due to the negligence of Tripura Govt and the BPL families are also bound to take the poor qualities food grains.

Not only this, the food grains are so much bad qualities that sometimes they are found filled with stones and maximum grains are broken.

As a result the resentment has brewed among the local people and complain has raised against 23 ration shops for storing such quality of food grains.

In 2015, Tripura government announced continue to distribute rice at a cost of Rs 2/kg to the people living under below poverty line (BPL) and in 2016, the state government  implemented the Central Food Security Act.

On that time Principal Secretary S K Rakesh said, "As per this act, the BPL category people are supposed to get rice at the rate of Rs 3 per kg, but the state government had decided to distribute the rice to the BPL category people at Rs 2 per kg with the state paying Re 1 as subsidy".

But now the food quality has downed to such a level that it's no more worthy for human to consume.