The Kendrapada Town police on Saturday arrested a 44-year-old woman, Srabani Mohapatra, of Kamarkhandi village for lifting subsidised food grains after obtaining ration card under the NFSA despite being ineligible by furnishing false information.
With this, total two ineligible ration card holders have been arrested so far. Earlier, on Monday, a person was arrested by the Patakura police for lifting subsidised food grains under the NFSA after getting ration card by providing wrong information to the inquiry team.
Till July 17, concerned BDOs and executive officers of the two municipalities of the district have lodged FIRs against 274 numbers of ration card holders, who have obtained the cards by submitting false documents and were lifting subsidised food grains. Meanwhile, a sum of `7,02,182 has been recovered from 167 ineligible card holders’ families as fine.
Kendrapada CSO Ramnath Sahu said the district has 14,39,875 population and the administration has targeted to provide NFSA ration card to 11,03,038 persons under the NFSA.