Collector Narendra Shukla ordered the nodal officers to ensure completion of checking of all ration cards under the Chhattisgarh Food and Nutrition Security Act 2012 by launching a drive by June 13 this year.
In a meeting of nodal officers appointed for checking of ration cards, the Collector said that inspection teams formed for urban bodies and rural areas would go door-to-door and verify ration cards based on the families included in the Census 2011 and the number of ration cards issued.
For the physical verification of ration cards, a Chief Municipal Officer has been appointed as nodal officer for urban areas and Janpad panchayat CEO for rural areas. Total 414 inspection teams are formed in the district.
The Collector asked the nodal officers to proclaim and give proper publicity to this drive through posters and banners, so that people could present their ration cards at the time of inspection.
After verification, the team will make necessary entries in the list of ration card holders. On checking, more than one ration card, if it is found that in any family, the one that is in the name of the senior most woman head of the family as per rules, it will be considered valid and the rest of them would be cancelled. Besides destitutes, the other single member ration cards will be specially checked.
If the ration card holder would not get his ration card verified during inspection, his ration card will be cancelled and he will not be eligible for ration from July 2014. The Food Department Officer will be responsible for supply of ration to any ineligible beneficiary.
Additional Collector Pushpa Sahu, SDM Balod Alok Pandey, SDM Daundilohara Bharti Chandrakar, Food Officer JR Vaidya, Project Director Dilip Kurre, all tehsildars, chief municipal officers and Janpad Panchayat CEOs were present in the meeting.