Date:31/08/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/08/31/stories/2007083151800300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Move to involve sarpanchs in affairs of FP shops

Correspondent

VIZIANAGARAM: The district administration is to seek approval of the Government for involving sarpanchs in distribution of essential commodities through FP shops.

At the Food Advisory Committee meeting here on Thursday, Collector B. Kishore found favour with the proposal of ZP chairman B. Appala Naidu that monthly indent to FP shops must be released after receiving a certificate from sarpanchs that the distribution of essentials was in order. The suggestion came in the wake of a complaint by CPI district secretary P. Kameswara Rao that kerosene was not being supplied regularly in some areas.