State Food and Civic Supplies Minister Saryu Roy urged the ineligible persons or affluent persons to surrender their ration cards under Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) by September 15 otherwise stringent action would be taken against them.
Roy attended a meeting at Chas on Thursday and took an account of several public issues and assured them to sort them out at the earliest.
Earlier, Bokaro Deputy Commissioner MK Barnwal executed an order and asked such people to surrender their ration cards at their nearby PDS shop by 10 August.
Following the order of the DC, 122 ineligible ration cards under Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) were surrendered (by 10 August). Despite giving sufficient time to surrender, a lot of ineligible persons or affluent persons are still having ration cards, informed Neeraj Kumar District Supply Officer.
We are on move to take legal actions against such persons after identifying them earliest, he said. A large number of ration cards, which were grabbed by the ineligible beneficiaries have to be surrendered before the district administration, informed the DSO.
The order stated eight-point guidelines for the ineligible persons of AAY card includes: 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 ration AAY cards.