With a view to provide benefit of Chhattisgarh Food and Nutrition Security Act 2012 to the destitute and remove ineligible persons from this scheme, the district administration has launched a massive ration card verification drive here on Saturday.
In a bid to speed up the work, the administration has formed teams of the field verification officers at all 576 Gram Panchayats and 256 wards’ level.The field officials were asked to go every doorstep for physical verification of the ration card holders.
The teams were provided with lists of ration card holders. After the verification, the team members were asked to make necessary entries in the lists.The teams would examine the basis for issuance of ration cards to the beneficiaries.
In case more than one ration card are found in a family, the ration card issued in the name of senior woman member of the family would be considered valid whereas remaining ration cards would be cancelled with inclusion of the members in the valid ration card.
The field officers were also asked to mark seal of ‘Verify’ on the ration cards found correct while mark a seal of ‘Cancelled’ on those found ineligible under the scheme. Seal of ‘Providing 10kg rise’ should also be marked on the ration cards, whose holders were found eligible in the scheme.
Besides, after the verification, the ration card number of the respective holders should be painted outside his house’s wall. The ration card of those people, who elude from the verification drive or whose cards’ left unchecked due to any other reasons, will be considered as cancelled.
Notably, the State Government has decided to give 10 kg free food grains every month on ration cards of single-member destitute families and verify other single-member ration cards to include them in the main family ration cards.