Finance Minister Pulls Up Bureaucrat For A Question He Failed To Answer
NDTV
Finance Minister said the Centre is supplying the rice in PDS shops bearing all the costs, including logistics and storage, and was trying to get an answer whether that free rice is reaching the people or not.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday pulled up the Kamareddy district collector Jitesh Patil when the latter could not provide an answer to what was the Centre and the state's share in the rice supplied through fair price shops.
Ms Sitharaman, who was attending various programmes in Zaheerabad Parliamentary Constituency as part of BJP's 'Lok Sabha Pravas Yojana', also asked Collector Jitesh Patil why the picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was missing at the shop in Birkur as the Centre bears a lion's share in the subsidised rice which is being sold at Rs 1 in the state to beneficiaries.
"The rice which is sold at Rs 35 in the open market was being distributed to people at Rs 1 here. How much is the state government bearing?" she asked the Collector.
She said the Centre is supplying the rice in PDS shops bearing all the costs, including logistics and storage, and was trying to get an answer whether that free rice is reaching the people or not.
