District administration to launch drive to detect bogus ration cards
Times of India: The district administration will soon take up an extensive drive in the city to detect bogus ration cards. During the drive, all ration card holders will have to submit details of the members named in the card, along with residence proof and a photo of the card holder, to the administration.
The food distribution officer (FDO) Pradip Patil told TOI, “The drive is expected to begin around December 15. “It will enable the administration to identify fake ration cards and people with the multiple cards. The drive would also curb the unethical pratices being carried out by touts at zonal offices.”
Patil said the card holders will have to fill up a form with details of the family members mentioned in the card. “We are still to receive the forms from the government. We would need around 10 lakh forms, considering the number of ration cards in the city.”
The procedure for issuing ration cards had come into limelight a couple of times last year, when fake cards in the name of former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and terrorist Ajmal Kasab were issued from zonal offices.
Patil said the forms will be made available at ration shops. The forms found without proper information would be considered as bogus.
He said that “there are more than 8.5 lakh ration card holders in the city under various heads including cards for people below poverty line, white ration cards, cards under antyoday scheme and cards for people above poverty line.
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Adequate forms are not available at ration shops also hundreds of people stand in the que to get that form but still i dont know how that forms are exaushted please look in to the matter & do some thing for the people
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