NLD Statement 46/99

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"...We have information that Township SPDC Chairman and Secretaries give a format to the Village SPDC chairmen regarding the quantity of paddy, beans and pulses, and chillies that have to be supplied by the different villages which has to be fulfilled willy nilly. 3. Though the cost of a bag of fertiliser issued by the relevant authorities is two thousand kyats, the cultivators are made to pay an additional two hundred kyats for the District SPDC plus the additional sum of two kyats for one gallon of diesel . Overall, the power wielding authorities make more than 60 millions kyats on three and a half lakhs of fertiliser bags and 720,000 kyats on three lakhs , sixty thousand gallons of diesel...."

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National League for Democracy (NLD)

Date of Publication: 

1999-03-16

Date of entry: 

2009-05-18

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