Municipal Corporation supervisor, Tehsil Ameen and lekhpal, Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers who have been deployed for making new ration cards under National Food Security Scheme-2013 in the district were directed to lay emphasis on identifying poor people who will be given new ration cards under the scheme.
Dehradun District Magistrate BVRC Purushottam said this while presiding over a workshop on selection process for intended beneficiaries under National Food Security Scheme held at Town Hall in Dehradun on Tuesday. Beneficiaries under this scheme were appealed to submit application form for making new ration card along with photo identity card and an affidavit stating all the relevant information given in the form to local Anganwadi centre by September 30, 2013. Applicants should collect form receipt from the centre.
Purushottam said that only the intended beneficiaries who happen to be poor will be issued new ration card under the scheme in the district. The beneficiaries will have to submit an affidavit and not need to make rounds of Tehsil or other Government offices for making income certificate. During workshop, the District Magistrate directed the officials to distribute application form for new ration card among those persons who are beneficiaries of old age pension, physically handicap pension, widow pension with an instruction to submit this form along with affidavit stating relevant information and other relevant documents to the local Anganwadi centre.
The employees were directed to ensure that the application form for new ration card is being distributed among poor people only in their respective jurisdiction. Beneficiaries will have to submit photo identity card along with application form to the Anganwadi centre on said date. The employees were informed that application forms should also be distributed among those families whose income is less than or equal to 15, 000 per month apart form those persons who are rickshaw drivers, porters, daily wagers, sanitation workers, cobblers, blacksmiths, carpenters, village craftsmen, domestic helpers, farmers who do not own land and work under landlords, those persons who live in slum areas or live in widow home and others who do not file income tax come under the scheme.