Under the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act 2012, for the smooth implementation of the ration card campaign in the state, commissioner, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department, Vikas Sheel, issued directives and clarifications. said in an official statement here on Monday.
According to the directives issued here, the present valid ration card holders of Antyodaya Anna Yojana, Annapoorna Yojana, BPl Yojana and Mukhyamantri Khadyanna Sahayata Yojana, need not to enclose any type of certificate while applying for new ration card.
Such ration card holders would be issued pink ration cards of Antyodaya scheme or blue ration cards of priority family, as per their eligibility.
The present valid ration card holders, after receiving the new ration cards from the camps, will surrender their old ration cards. The applicants need not to be eligible for all eligibility criterion prescribed in the form.
For Antyodaya family, 7 eligibility criteria have been shown in the application form, out of which the applicant should be eligible for any one of the criterion for getting ration card.
It is not necessary for the woman head of the family to be present at the camp being organised for issuing application form for ration card. Any male member of the family can get the application form.
However, while submitting the application form, it would be mandatory for the woman head of the family to be present at the camp, so that she could get the receipt of the application and her signature could be registered in the camp register.
The ration card application form would be given to the beneficiaries free of cost.