SRINAGAR: Notwithstanding claims of full availability of ration during the holy month of Ramadhan, there is acute deficiency of food in most of the rural areas in Kashmir.
People allege they are suffering heavily on account of scarcity of rice, sugar, kerosene and flour at hundreds of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) depots.
They say they have been forced to buy food grains at exorbitant prices from the open market.
“There is no control on prices either and government is almost non-existent everywhere,” one of the residents of Nowgam Bypass told a local news agency CNS.
The case is same a cross Kashmir valley including capital Srinagar, Chandrigam, Mandoora, Saimou villages, Sopore town and Shopian.
Meanwhile all the ration depots of Kashmir Valley remained closed on Saturday as the CAPD employees had gone on strike over promotion issues.
Officials could not be reached for comment.
