Acting on the direction of district Collector Debaraj Senapati, the BDOs of eight blocks and one municipality lodged FIRs against 148 ineligible beneficiaries of NFSA in their respective police stations.
The accused managed to get NFSA ration cards by submitting fake documents and had been lifting the Government sponsored subsidised food grains under NFSA-2013.
According to district Collector Senapti, there were allegations against these people for availing subsidised food grains by fraud. As a result, he had directed a special inquiry in all the nine blocks and two municipalities of the district.
later, the BDOs submitted the special inquiry report in which it was unearthed that as many as 148 persons in eight blocks and one municipality had been lifting the food grains despite being ineligible. These beneficiaries managed to obtain the ration card by submitting forged documents.
In Derabish block, as many as 46 ineligible persons of Kaupada panchayat have been identified obtaining ration cards and availing food grains, whereas six ineligible beneficiaries were identified in Aul block, including three each from Aragala and Patrapur panchayats, nine, including six ineligible beneficiaries under Dera panchayat and three ineligible beneficiaries under Iswarpur panchayats, were identified under Rajnagar block. In Pattamundai block, 10 ineligible ration cardholders, including six ineligible ration cardholders from Chandannagar and four from Srirampur, in Rajkanika as many as 13 ineligible cardholders and in Mahakalapada block as many as 20 ineligible persons of Khurusia panchayat, in Garadapur block as many as six persons, in Marshaghai block as many as 32 and in Kendrapada municipality as many as six persons were identified.
Acting on the special inquiry report, district Collector Senapati directed the BDOs of Aul, Derabish,Rajkanika,Pattamundai,Mahakalapada and Rajnagar blocks to lodge FIR against the ineligible beneficiaries.
Most of them, against whom FIR lodged, have concrete house having more than three rooms, which violates NFSA norms for getting ration card, said the Civil Supply Officer of Kendrapada.
Meanwhile, the BDOs of Kendrapada and also the officials of Pattamundai municipality have been directed to submit a detailed report about the FIR lodged against the number of ineligible card holders at their respective police stations. This is the first phase of identifying the ineligible card holders and to register cases against them. The CSO Sahu stated that the Collector has also directed the BDOs to collect the food grains with interests from the ineligible beneficiaries.