SHILLONG, NOV 8: Meghalaya government today expressed fear that it would lose its food grain quota if it is not toeing the line of the BJP-led NDA government on the issue implementing cashless transaction in fair price shops across the state.
“I am afraid if we don’t toe their line they may not give us our quota that we need,” Deputy Chief Minister Roytre C Laloo told reporters at the sidelines of the black day observed by the Congress on the first anniversary of demonetization here on Wednesday.
Laloo, who is also in-charge of Food & Civil Supply department, revealed that he has been pressurized by the Centre government to use cashless transaction in the fair price shops (FPSs).
“They have put lots of pressure on me that the distribution of goods in fair price shops should be cashless manner knowing-fully-well that we don’t have the facilities here, I have not able to tell them anything and I am not interested in telling them because we need the service of the central government through the BSNL to make it cashless which is not possible till today,” he said.
Laloo however said of course the state government has started at the wholesale level but to go down to FPS it is not easy as most of the people in the villages they don’t have ATM cards and they don’t have internet connection.
“As a minister I have been trying my best to introduce the system but only at a certain level,” he added.
By Our Reporter
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