Promise of 583 grain banks
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20/01/2011
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Telegraph (Ranchi)
Hazaribagh, Jan. 19: The state government will open 583 foodgrain banks at villages across Jharkhand and provide grains to every below poverty line (BPL) family immediately.
Food and civil supplies minister Mathura Prasad Mahto said this today after a review of the district under North Chotanagpur commissionerate, where he instructed officials to check hoarders and prevent hunger deaths by supplying foodgrain free of cost to the poor.
The minister said the government had also decided to open 300 kiosks in villages to supply onion, pulses and mustard oil on subsidised rates. When pointed out that Suvidha Kendras opened by the state during President