The district administration of Bastar is aiming to provide Aadhaar Card for every child. Collector Amit Kataria on Wednesday informed that in order to achieve the target of covering 100 percent children, the process of registration for UID is being carried out in Anganwadis and Schools.
Children aged between 0-6 years are being preferred in Anganwadis. On the other hand, children between the age group of 6-18 years are preferred. Two routes have been made in each block wherein the registration is done through Aadhaar machines. The machine is either being installed at the Gram Panchayat or in the School Building.
The process was started in various wards of Jagdalpur on October 7. The Aadhaar machine for students studying in Private and Government Schools will be installed soon, stated officials. The District Administration has appealed the residents of Bastar to come forward in the Aadhaar registration of children in their areas.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh government has also prepared a comprehensive action plan for ensuring total transparency in the preparation of ration cards besides evolving a mechanism for error-free identity of Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries.
Under the action plan, the mobile, bank account and Aadhar numbers of the beneficiaries are being collected.
Officials informed that data entry of details of more than 39,40,556 PDS beneficiaries have been completed out of the popular 63,51,736 beneficiaries till August month. Moreover, in a bid to strengthen the Public Distribution System (PDS), as many as 2653 fair price shops have been opened in the State in past 11 years including 66 new shops in 2014-15. With this the total fair price shops in the PDS system in the State has gone up to 11111.
Officials claim that Chhattisgarh is a model state in Public Distribution System (PDS), which is transparent and ration are provided on schedule. Officials of Food, Civil Supply and Consumer Protection Department said that the State government had implemented the Public Distribution System (Control) Order on December 23, 2004 to monitor the allotments to the fair price shops and for timely lifting and distribution of ration.
To provide ration to beneficiaries every month, there are 11111 fair price shops in the State. This includes 9795 shops in rural areas and 1316 shops in urban areas. The gram panchayats are operating 4083 shops while cooperative societies are operating 4361 shops. Besides this 2458 shops are being run by the women Self Help Groups (SHG), 152 shops by Forest Protection Societies and 56 shops are being run by urban bodies.