As per the directives of newly formed Jharkhand Government, the Deputy Commissioner of Hazaribagh Sunil Kumar has directed the officials to distribute the new unique ration cards by March 31, 2015. To get the officials of the district and blocks acquainted with the directives coming from the State Government, the DC convened a meeting on Saturday in his meeting hall. In this marathon meeting, which concluded late in the evening, it was found that about 4 lakh ration cards are needed in entire district.
This time BPl, Extra BPl and Antyodaya will be prepared and distributed first. In this category, 1,30,000 applications have been digitalised while verification of 1,28,000 has been done. 78,814 BPl cards have already been distributed. About 4,000 more cards are in the process of distribution.
The data of 87,000 BPl cards is to be digitalised and this time for APl, unique cards will be made.The colour of cards will be Green for APl, Red for BPl, Blue for extra BPl, Yellow for Antyodaya and white for Annapurna.
DC Sunil Kumar directed the officials verify every application to identify the bogus ration cards. On Saturday, as per the direction of State Government discussion took place on opening the Dal Bhat centres in entire district.
It was decided that in sadar block 17 and in Barhi 5 such centres will be started soon. The Government has directed purchase of materials at the rate of marketing yard rate of items. This time with Dal-Bhat, Gram or Soya will be served to the customers in the centres.
While concluding the meeting, he directed all block officials to submit a detailed report of number of applications received for new ration cards, number of accepted applications, number of rejected applications and the number of households who have yet not applied for new ration cards.
AC Ranjan Chaudhary, Trainee IAS Jeeshan Quamar, SDO Sandeep Kumar, Barhi SDO Harshika Singh, Director DRDA, DSO virendra Kumar Singh, Block Development Officers, Marketing Officers, Godown Managers and Step delivery Transporters were present in the meeting.