Government stocks of rice, wheat rise, but distribution declines

Arambagh slum in Rupnagar, Mirpur, is quite large, home to thousands of low-income people. In the past, the government used to sell food items at subsidised prices from trucks parked in front of the slum. Residents could not recall which agency operated the sales, but they said they used to queue up to buy the food. That service is no longer available.Sufia Begum, 45, lives in the slum. She was…