Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2623,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2623,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 2538
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Surprisingly, minister of food &amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&rdquo; he told FE.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&rdquo;</font></p><p align="justify"><font >West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&rdquo; Koley said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&rsquo; Association said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ></font></p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2623,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2623,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 2538
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Surprisingly, minister of food &amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&rdquo; he told FE.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&rdquo;</font></p><p align="justify"><font >West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&rdquo; Koley said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&rsquo; Association said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ></font></p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680efddff1f55-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr680efddff1f55-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2623,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 2538,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 2623,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 2538
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Surprisingly, minister of food &amp;amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &amp;ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&amp;rdquo; he told FE.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &amp;ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp;amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&amp;rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &amp;ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&amp;rdquo; Koley said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&amp;rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&amp;rsquo; Association said.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Surprisingly, minister of food &amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&rdquo; he told FE.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&rdquo;</font></p><p align="justify"><font >West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&rdquo; Koley said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&rsquo; Association said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ></font></p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 2538,
		'title' => 'Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"></font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Surprisingly, minister of food &amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&rdquo; he told FE.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&rdquo;</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&rdquo; Koley said.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&rsquo; Association said.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"></font>
</p>
',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 2623,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 2538,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food',
	'metaDesc' => '



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...',
	'disp' => '<p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Surprisingly, minister of food &amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&rdquo; he told FE.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&rdquo;</font></p><p align="justify"><font >West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&rdquo; Koley said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&rsquo; Association said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ></font></p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 2538,
	'title' => 'Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"></font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Surprisingly, minister of food &amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&rdquo; he told FE.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&rdquo;</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&rdquo; Koley said.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&rsquo; Association said.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"></font>
</p>
',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Financial Express, 20 July, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir/648846/0',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'bengal-ration-shops-threaten-stir-by-rohit-khanna-2623',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 2623,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 2538
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna'
$metaKeywords = 'Food Security,PDS,Right to Food,Right to Food'
$metaDesc = '



Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops...'
$disp = '<p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Surprisingly, minister of food &amp; supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. &ldquo;We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,&rdquo; he told FE.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. &ldquo;We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.&rdquo;</font></p><p align="justify"><font >West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food &amp; supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,&rdquo; said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers&rsquo; Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). &ldquo;The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,&rdquo; Koley said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&ldquo;We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,&rdquo; Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers&rsquo; Association said.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ></font></p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Bengal ration shops threaten stir by Rohit Khanna

Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to go underground after food riots due to shortage. Surprisingly, minister of food & supplies Paresh Adhikari appeared to be unaware of the situation. “We are yet to get complaints of such a shortage from the dealers. We will take necessary steps once they complain,” he told FE. According to him, there is a huge gap between the price at which the state procures foodgrain and the issue price. “We have asked Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and RBI governor D Subbarao to look into the matter.” West Bengal MR Dealers’ Association and All Bengal Fair Price Shop Welfare Association have decided to move jointly after a token strike on July 30. Meanwhile, the committee set up by the ministry of food & supplies of West Bengal to review matters related to PDS and some non-PDS items is yet to submit its report. The shortage in supply is acute in the state specially for the segment covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). According to state government records, there is shortage of 99.7 tonne of rice and 47.78 tonne of wheat annually in the AAY scheme. “We cannot face the rage of the beneficiaries of PDS. If the situation does not improve soon we will again see a re-run of what happened three years back,” said Jagannath Koley, president of the West Bengal MR Dealers’ Association. There are almost 7.67 crore ration card holders in the state including 2.04 crore minors of which almost 30% are under below poverty line (BPL) category and centrally sponsored schemes like Annapurna and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). “The state government has not revised the list for AAY scheme after 1997 and thousands of applications are pending with the state government,” Koley said. Wheat shortage in the BPL category is around 3,511 tonne annually and for the APL category it is around 17,781 tonne annually. The associations will also get support from the kerosene dealers who are facing a similar shortage in supplies. “We can distribute around 750 ml of kerosene per head per month in the rural areas. There is an acute shortage of supplies. In fact, allotment of kerosene has come down from 1 litre per month per head in rural areas in 2000 to 750 ml now,” Ashoke Gupta, state secretary of West Bengal Kerosene Dealers’ Association said.