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Rs 480 Million On Food Supply To Deficit Areas In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 19, 2013: Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) has demanded Rs 600 million from the government to provide the food deficit areas with rice in the next fiscal year 2013 that starts on July 16, 2013. NFC has asked Rs 480 million for transporting 15,000 tons (150,000 quintals) of rice to the different food deficit areas in Nepal.
The government had allocated Rs. 420 million to the NFC for supplying about 143,000 quintals of rice in the current fiscal year. However, the government has provided only Rs.300 million to NFC. Probably, NFC complained that it could not achieve its target of providing food to the food deficit areas.
NFC has been supplying subsidized food in 23 highly food deficit districts such as Taplajung, Sankhusawaba, Bhojpur, Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga, Diktel, Manang, Gorkha, Mustang, Salyan, Rolpa, Dailekh, Jajarkot, Humla, Jumla, Mugu, Dolpa, Kalikot, Bhajang, Bajura, Achham, Baitadi and Darchula, according to gorkhaaptraonline.com.
NFC has been sucking the state coffer without providing any relief to the needy people in the food deficit districts. NFC is so corrupt that sometimes food never reaches its destination but the paper says it is. State officials at the district headquarters consume most of the food. Rarely, the poor has access to such subsidized food particularly rice.
