Under the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act 2012, new ration cards have been distributed to the deprived families by holding camps at all wards and village-level.
The food department has distributed about 40,000 ration cards through peoples’ representatives, by organising programmes at development block level.
According to an official press statement issued here on Wednesday, Korba district is on the first position in the state, as far as ration card distribution is concerned. Total 1.22 lakh applications received in the district, which were made PDF after uploading in the computer. Korba has also grabbed second position in preparation of PDF (96.14 per cent), after Jashpur district (96.57 per cent) in the state.
After the implementation of the Food Security Action 2012, applications were collected from the beneficiaries by conducting camps at all the 352 village panchayats and 121 wards of urban bodies of the district. According to district food officer H Masih, the ration card preparation and distribution work was going on in the district at a fast pace.