Delhi BJP alleged that the additional ration issued by the Centre under 'One Nation One Card' also did not reach the poor of Delhi who have come from other states and are living in the city.
“The commission of ration vendors of Delhi has not been given since the last half year whereas they should have received the commission in advance and the central government has already given this amount to the capital,” said Delhi BJP Working President Virendra Sachdeva said while addressing a press conference.
“The Centre provides ration to the consumers of Delhi under the National Food Security Act, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana and 'One Nation One Card Scheme'. Along with providing ration, the Centre also pays the cost of transportation and commission of ration vendors to deliver ration from godowns to ration vendors,” Sachdeva said.
“The Delhi government only needs to lift the ration from the godowns and to deliver it to the ration vendors, but the it is unable to do it and the poor of Delhi are roaming around desperately for the ration,” Sachdeva claimed. Speaking at the press conference, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said that the reason is that more than 34,000 quintals of rice from Mayapuri, Okhla and Pusa godowns and 10,000 quintals of wheat from Mayapuri godown, sent for the month of November, were not lifted.
“The Centre has already released 8,000 tonnes of rice and 11,900 tonnes of wheat for half year from April to September this year, but the Delhi government could not distribute even this. It has also paid Rs 24.89 crores as the commission of ration vendors in the past half year, but the Delhi government suppressed that amount as well and out of that only Rs 14.55 crores were released. In this way, the ration vendors are not even being given their commission properly,” Bidhuri alleged.