AGARTALA, July 21 (TIWN): The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) formed its new Tripura state committee on Sunday. The new committee headed by state president Papri Haldar today said that a memorandum with seven point demands was finalized to be sent to Union minister of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan.

The ruling Left Front government in Tripura has totally failed to provide basic amenities like sufficient stock of foodgrains in the fair price shops, ravaging diseases like malaria and diarrhea. The government deprived its employees from proper jobs and didn’t give proper pay to those who had proper jobs, Haldar said in an official communiqué.

She reiterated the issue that a recent verdict of the High Court of Tripura had cancelled the jobs of 10,323 Graduate, Under Graduate and Post Graduate Teachers recruited since 2010. The memorandum scheduled to be sent to Union Food and Civil Supplies Minister said that alongwith other states of the NE, Tripura had serious shortage of ware-housing facility.

The party demanded that the central government should provide liberal scopes to the entrepreneurs for encouraging construction of ware-houses in the remot areas. Capacities of the existing FCI godowns would have to enhanced as well, the memorandum said. It added that cold storages were needed in larger numbers with larger capacities to ensure the vegetable produce didn’t go waste for
shortage of storage facilities.

 The memorandum raised the issue of proper supplies of domestic LPG cylinders and combat the rising trend of black marketeering. The LJP party sought for strict vigilance on the PDS commodities
distributed through the fair price shops. It sought special care for welfare and benefits to primitive groups and provisions of free food-grains to these communities.

The party raised the demand of re-introducing sugar as an essential commodity through the PDS. The UPA II government cancelled sugar from the essential commodities list and introduced a minimum subsidy in 2013 for states which would supply sugar through PDS out of its own budget.