The people, who are having old ration cards of any type, need not surrender their cards for the making of new cards under Food Security Act 2012. They will be given food grains on the old cards until the new ones’ are made, said Vikas Sheel, Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies, addressing a press conference at new circuit house on Monday.
The secretary said that there are confusions over the new ration cards made under the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act 2012 which the administration wants to clear. To end the place of middle man in the making of ration card, we have decided that forms for making of ration cards will be available free of cost. The proforma of forms will be published in newspapers and can be downloaded from the official website of department http//cg.nic.in/khadya To ensure that every person willing to submit the form gets it, the photocopies of the form shall be also excepted. In addition to it, interested persons can contact on toll free number 1800-233-3663 to sort out any kind of problems related with the ration cards, Vikas Sheel maintained. Replying to the query that lakhs of cards were cancelled in past, as they were allotted to in-eligible persons, the Secretary said that we cannot stop any from applying for the cards, but we will ensure that the due procedure is followed and only the eligible person get the cards.
Vikas Sheel further said that after ration card making work is completed about 11 lakh families will be covered under it and about 46 lakh families will be benefited by it. According to the provision, 35 kgs of rice, iodine salt, gram and dal will distributed to eligible families under subsidies rates.