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| Congress leaders demand thorough review of NFSA & MMFES in Ladakh region | | call for implementation of schemes as extended in Tribal populated areas of Lahul and Spiti in HP | 
Leh (Ladakh), May 4, (Scoop News)-Several senior Congress leaders from Ladakh region have demanded full ration scale as per past practice and also urged a comprehensive review of National Food Security Act (NFSA) and Mufti Mohammed Sayeed Food Entitlement Schemes (MMFES).
In separate press statements issued on Wednesday, Mr Tsering Samphel and Gulam Raza, asserted that people of the region are broken hearted over the insubstantial food scale being provided to the public from the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CA&PD) Department under the NFSA besides recently proposed MMFES.
“To register their protest, the people have refused to take the monthly scale of their ration as per the recently announced ratio”, they added.
The leaders rued since the region of Ladakh is confronted with hardest topographical location, with its borders face to face with Pakistan and China and climatic constraint besidesa the region remains cut off from rest of the country for over half of the year.
“Entire population belongs to Schedule Tribes (ST) category, the implementation of the schemes of NFSA and MMFES over Ladakh should have been considered separately after making full survey of all the regions in the country populated by ST people”, Congress leaders argued.
The state government ought to have at least studied the case of Tribal belts in the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh state, where the NFSA has not been extended in the Tribal populated areas of Lahul and Spiti, they pointed out.
“In Lahul and Spiti areas, the Tribal Above Poverty Line (APL) category people are getting 15 kg of rice and 20 kg of flour (atta) per family per month at concessional rates”, Samphel and Raza complained.
Congress leaders urged the authorities to review the scheme and find an amicable solution that is acceptable to the people of the region populated by the Scheduled Tribes.
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