Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 12 2009:
Fair Price Shop Agents' Association, Senapati will organise a sit-in-protest on November 17 to register protest against the failure of the authority concerned in fulfilling their demands, according to a statement issued by the association's secretary A Sahrinii and acting president KK Tennyson.
The FPS Agents' Association, Senapati has been demanding the authority concerned to look into the matter of denial of 388 quintals of rice for 14 villages under Mao AC, denial of rice under PDS to few villages for January and February 2009,denial of PDS for Karong and Tadubi ACs from March to November, denial of PDS to Mao AC from May to November, non-entertainment of agents' names, ban on APL rice, sugar and oil, and alleged ambiguity of departmental officials to sanction AAY and BPL up to November.
The association has also drawn the attention of the MLAs concerned and the authority concerned in redressing the grievances of the agents.