PONDA: The residents in Ponda and neighbouring villages are panic stricken as the system to deliver home essential commodities from fair price shops is still not in place.
The promise of the chief minister and minster for civil supplies of home delivery has remained just a promise.
And with the closure of all the grocery shops and sky rocketing of the prices of essential commodities, the residents are under tremendous fear of tiding over the lockdown. The furious residents have demanded immediate opening of the fair price shops for public. “At least give us rice to survive,” is the cry of most residents in the taluka.
However, in some parts of Ponda taluka some politicians have distributed essential commodities.
Kavlem Sarpanch Rajesh Kavlekar said that many people are complaining that they have no rice.
“When the civil supplies department says it has plenty of stock, why it is not distributing? Due to lack of planning, the people are suffering. Therefore, the government should immediately open the grocery shops. We are on the eighth day of the lockdown, but still people are not getting essential commodities,” he said.
He said that he has not received any intimation from civil supplies department for home delivering ration quotas.
On Saturday, Civil Supplies Minister Govind Gaude had declared that home delivery of essential commodities from fair price shops would commence in two or three days.
In the meanwhile, locals are complaining that they have no food. Many have complained to the local panchas and sarpanchas about their dire condition.
When contacted, a fair price shop operator at Kavlem said that his shop would remain open from Monday and that he even brought quota on Sunday.
