First duty of the state

The government must ensure judicious use of resources to maximise its social welfare output.

Winter is here, and it is not long before remote mountain villages and towns will be cut off from the rest of the country due to excessive snowfall. Before that happens, people from those areas will have to collect enough grain to sustain themselves during the biting cold months when they won't be able to step out of their homes. But the urgency on the part of the citizens seems to be lost on the part of the state as several depots of Food Management and Trading Company in the food deficit region of the country are reported to have been running empty for weeks.