Kundapur: Ration cards cancelled - angry villagers stage protest

Silvester D'Souza
Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, Mar 21: Residents of Beloor village in the taluk, who were angry at the fact that their ration cards had recently been cancelled all of a sudden without any prior intimation, held a protest in front of Kota Cooperative Agricultural Bank on Wednesday March 20.

Ration items being distributed through fair price shops were denied to them this month, and their ration cards were found to have been cancelled without any reasons.

The affected people took officials of the food and civil supplies department, who had come on the spot to pacify them, to task. They were not convinced about the explanations given.

“About 120 ration cards from the village have been cancelled at one go without assigning any reasons. Most of the residents of Beloor village are very poor, and several of them do not have proper roofs over their heads. They are heavily dependent on the ration items because of high inflation. The department has put poor people in dire straits,” they complained.

Vice-president of Beloor gram panchayat, Suresh Marakala, taluk panchayat president, Deepika S Shetty, president of Beloor branch of the cooperative society, Karunakar Shetty, president of the bank, G Ramakrishna Aithal, chief executive officer, Nagaratna Santosh Shetty etc lent their ears to the problems of the villagers and promised to take up the issue with the concerned in an attempt to redress their grievances.