Food and Civil Supplies Minister Amarjeet Bhagat on Wednesday warned the ration shop owners in the state that they would be replaced if they were found indulging in irregularities.
The minister said his department was going to inspect all the ration shops across the state and will verify the complaints of irregularities against them.
Bhagat was speaking to media persons here at party’s state headquarters, Rajiv Bhavan. He was present there to hear the plights of the Congress workers.
If any irregularity was found an immediate action would be taken against the ration shop owners, he said.
Bhagat further thanked the chief minister Bhupesh Baghel for assigning him an important portfolio, which deals with the public distribution system.
Informing about the universal public distribution scheme to be launched on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti (October 2, 2019), the minister said the process of preparation of ration cards would get completed by September 30. “It is the responsibility on my shoulder to make avail rice in affordable price to all 65 lakhs families from the ration shops across the state”, he said.
Notable, the scheme was a part of election manifesto of the Congress in the recently held assembly elections. The Above Poverty Level families will also be benefitted from the PDS system under the food-for-all scheme.