Gram Panchayat level officials besides the officials of various Government departments were trained for issuing of ration cards under the Food Security Act at the Korba Janpad Panchayat in the district.
All the officials including Sarpanch, Secretary, Panch, Tax Officer, Agriculture Development Officer and Patwari were trained for issuance of ration cards at camps, an official Press release said.
It was informed that the training camps for ration card preparation in all gram panchayats would be held from April 10 to 30 at the Korba District Panchayat.
The Food Department directed that the workers who would be deployed for the task of ration card should carry out the work by being aware of the process of preparing the cards as per the eligibility of the beneficiary , carry out distribution of the declaration letter, the submission of declaration letters by being present in the camps on the prescribed dates.
The attendance had been made compulsory for the In-charges of the teams which would be involved in the preparation of ration cards at the camps.
During the training camp held recently, it was also informed that the workers would have to receive declaration letters having complete details of the beneficiaries alongwith their distribution which have to be submitted by Nodal officers to the Janpad CEO for the issuance of the ration cards on a fixed date.
Food Officer H Mesih had directed that all workers need to receive a receipt from the beneficiary after they are issued the declaration letter and the ration card.
He said that the workers must check the eligibility of the beneficiary under the current circumstances while taking submission of the declaration letter before issuing of the ration card.
A meeting was held on Saturday here in which SDM Korba JR Rathore, Deputy Collector Santan Devi, District Food Officer H Mesih, Assistant Food Officer Rajesh Jaiswal besides the CEO, Janpad Panchayat provided information on the various modalities on the issuance of the ration cards to the beneficiaries.
The members of the meeting were also distributed declaration letters, the list of the eligible beneficiaries and the registers in the meeting.
The officials receiving the training at the various camps were told about the eligibility criteria of the beneficiaries, the legal rights of the beneficiaries, the compulsory norm of issuing ration cards to every existing ration card holder, division of families holding ration cards into four categories mainly Antodaya family, Priority family, Common family and Excluded family.