Following the order of Bokaro Deputy Commissioner MK Baranawal, 122 ineligible families have surrendered their ration cards under Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) till Friday evening, informed Neeraj Kumar District Supply Officer.
Despite giving sufficient time to surrender, a lot of ineligible persons or affluent persons are still having ration cards. We are on move to take legal actions against such persons after identifying them earliest, he said.
“Shortly we will launch the operation,” added DSO.
In the order the DC had asked illegal card holders for both rural and urban areas to surrender their ration cards at their nearby PDS shop by 10 August 2018 otherwise stringent action would be taken and food grains would be recovered with all interest form them, informed an official.
“Any family member having vehicles including two-wheelers, Any family member having business with TIN (taxpayer identification number) or pays Income Tax, Service Tax or Sales Tax, Any member employed with Central or State Government, Family having Air Conditions, Refrigerators or Washing Machine, Family having more than Five acres of irrigated land or ten acres of normal land, Family having three roomed concrete house, Family having agriculture apparatus running on four wheels were ineligible to get AAY ration cards,” added the official.
“There are still a large number of ration cards, which were grabbed by the ineligible beneficiaries have to be surrendered before the district administration,” said an official.