Gearing up to implement the much talked about food security law in the district from September 2, the Almora district administration has decided to intensify survey of the BPl/ Antoday card holders.
Besides,as the Government has also decided to include those people in this food security scheme whose income is upto Rs15,000, so the main focus of the district administration, Almora, would be on to identify all such people in the district who belong to Rs15,000 monthly income slab, apart from preparing the list of the BPl/ antoday cardholders.
Reviewing the preparations in regard to the implementation of the said food security law in the district from September 2, in Almora on Monday, Akshyat Gupta, District Magistrate, Almora, has asked the officials concerned to conduct open meetings in different blocks to identify the BPl/antoday cardholders.
While the SDMs will conduct the survey of the BPl/antoday cardholders in urban areas, BDOs will look after this exercise in the rural areas of the district, further said Gupta. Carelessness on part of the officials concerned in completing this survey on time, would be taken seriously and appropriate action will be taken against such erring officials as per the law asserted the Almora District Magistrate.
As apart from the BPl/antoday card holders, people whose monthly income is upto Rs15,000 are also eligible to avail this food security scheme, so efforts are on to identify all such people so that the eligible people could be covered under this food security scheme, said the officials concerned.
Therefore, the Almora district administration has also directed the officials concerned to identify all such people in the district whose income is Rs15,000/ month, they added. It is to note that the BPl and the Antoday category people have already been included in the new food security law.