Two held with VGF rice
Two Union Parishad members were held along with 240 kg VGF rice from Badhal Union Parishad office at Bilkul village in Kachua upazila on Thursday. The arrestees are Narayan Chandra Das, member of Ward No 2 and Abul Bashar Sheikh, member of Ward No 5 in Badhal union. Official sources said, the government recently took a decision to distribute 30 kg rice per head among 232 destitute people under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme in the union. But the two UP members misappropriated 240 kg rice distributing less than the per head allotted quantity.
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