Palamu administration is looking for around 20 thousand ration card holders who possess the ration card but don't appear at the public distribution shop for ration. 

These around 20,000 ration card holders are harming in two ways. First, their presence has clogged the vacancy. There is no new addition to the ration card entry. Second, these people possess ration cards but government grains remain lifted 93 to 95 percent only. The remaining 5 percent or so the Palamu administration is looking for. 

DC Palamu Shashi Ranjan said, "We have urged such possessors of ration cards to surrender their cards voluntarily. They can do it by 31st of December. No one will be questioning them. Come and surrender your ration cards."

Once this moratorium period 31st December will be over, our officials will be prodding Mukhiyas and other rural elected body members to disclose the names of such people who are surreptitiously in possession of the ration cards added the DC.

Now, they will be questioned. They will have to explain this misconduct on their part, reminded the DC. 

District civil supplies officer Preety Kisko sounded more tough when she said such possessors to ration cards mainly red and yellow are most expected to surrender their cards on their own without the direct intervention of the administration. 

Preety Kisko further said these card holders are a stumbling block in new addition. Their surrender of cards will usher in a vacancy where needy and deserving people can be inducted. 

The exercise of locating such surreptitious ration card possessors is very arduous nevertheless Preety Kisko is confident of fishing out such ration card possessors.