While issuing additional guidelines related to issuance of ration cards under the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act 2012, collector Amrit Khalkho here on Wednesday told the chief executive officers of Janpad Panchayats and chief municipal officers of Nagar Panchayat and Municipal Councils to ensure smooth implementation of the campaign as per the instructions of the government, informed in an official statement here on Wednesday.
In the guidelines, it was said that the present valid ration card holders of Antyodaya Anna Yojana, Annapoorna Yojana, BPl Yojana and Mukhyamantri Khadyanna Sahayata Yojana, need not to enclose any type of certificate while applying for new ration card. Such ration card holders must be issued pink ration cards of Antyodaya scheme or blue ration cards of priority family, as per their eligibility.
The present valid ration card holders, after receiving the new ration cards from the camps, will only surrender their old ration cards. In no circumstance they should be forced to submit their present ration card before issuance of the new ration card. For Antyodaya and priority family groups, new ration cards should be issued to them on finding eligible in any of the eligibility criteria mentioned in the application form. The applicants need not to be eligible for all eligibility criterion prescribed in the form.
According to the guidelines, for Antyodaya ration card the applicant would personally submit the handicapped or released bonded labour certificate. Destitute, serious disease, deserted women and homeless certificates will be issued in the prescribed proforma by the competent person concerned and the applicant would not be asked to present these certificates.
Similarly, for the priority family ration card, the applicant would enclose the unorganised sector labour or building construction labour registration certificate. The eligibility of landless agriculture labourer and marginal and small farmer family would be decided by the team on the basis of the land registered in land record certificate issued by the Patwari in the prescribed form.
It is not necessary for the woman head of the family to be present at the camp being organised for issuing application form for ration card. Any male member of the family can get the application form. However, while submitting the application form, it would be mandatory for the woman head of the family to be present at the camp, so that she could get the receipt of the application and her signature could be registered in the camp register.
The ration card application form would be given to the beneficiaries free of cost. If the applicant submits application in the photo copy of the form, such applications would also be accepted and it would not be rejected. If the applicant is not having mobile, smart card of national health insurance scheme or Mukhyamantri health insurance scheme and Aadhar Card, it would not be mandatory for them to
register the number in the form.