Chief Minister Raman Singh on Sunday sought the people’s support for ongoing ration card verification and cancellation drive underway across Chhattisgarh.
“The special drive aimed to ensure that the poor and eligible recipients should get benefits of ration card facility while the ineligible ration card holders should be identified and removed from this public distribution system” he said in a press release issued here.Singh said that he is once again making an appeal to the ineligible persons to soon return their ration cards or legal action will be taken against them. The Chief Minister said that Chhattisgarh is the first State of the country to have formed the ‘Chhattisgarh Food and Nutrition Security Act, 2012’.
Under this Act, lakhs of eligible families are provided 35 kg rice on Rs1/kg and 2 kg free iodine salt, per month. Besides, the government also distributes chickpeas in tribal areas and pulses in non-tribal areas. “No ineligible person will be benefitted under this scheme” said Singh.