PANJIM/QUEPEM, Jan. 29 -- The All Goa Fair Price Shop Owners and Cooperative Society Association on Saturday warned the State government that they will neither lift nor distribute the February quota of the food grains if their three-year dues/accounts are not cleared at the earliest.

Speaking to reporters at Azad Maidan, Panjim, the Association member Gandhi Henriques said that their dues and commission for the last three years are pending. He said that they had paid in advance to purchase rice and wheat and that the Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs.

The department was supposed to reimburse the amount subsequently. But the department has failed to clear the dues and commission pending for last three years, he said addin...