The administration has again started focusing on linking the ration card with Aadhaar. Scissors will soon start running on 40 thousand units of National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the district.
This action will be implemented on the instructions of the top officers for 100% authentication. If this happens, then the government ration of about nine thousand families is sure to be banned. As per the instructions of the Central Government, One Nation One Ration Card scheme has been implemented across the country.
Under which Smart Ration Card (PVC) of consumers is to be made. With this new ration card, consumers will be able to take their quota of food grains from any ration shop from anywhere in the country. But before this, the Food Supply Department had to link all ration card holder family heads and all units of the card with Aadhaar. In all the districts including Nainital, the process of linking the Aadhaar of the head of the ration card holder family has been completed.
After which the units had to be linked with Aadhaar. Under this, every member of the ration card holder family had to link Aadhaar through the government cheap gall seller of their area. Despite this, Aadhaar linking of 58 thousand units linked to white and red ration cards could not be done under NFSA in the district. In such a situation, considering all these as fake, orders were received from the government to cancel them. These units were canceled in December last year.
However, after a few days, all of them were given another chance to link Aadhaar. Despite this, the Aadhaar link of 40 thousand units could not be done. This time the food supply department has been verbally ordered from the government level to cancel such units. According to the officials, about nine thousand ration cards will be directly out of the public food distribution system.
Departmental negligence are contracting consumer
repeatedly documented and consumers angry demand based card has described it as a departmental negligence. According to the vendors, the department has asked the consumers for Aadhar card many times in the past as well. Now there is a lot of displeasure among them for asking for Aadhaar again. He says that the units which are not able to link Aadhaar despite repeated requests, they should be canceled straight away. In this way, other consumers are also getting upset due to giving one chance after the other. Aadhar is also being sought from the consumers who have linked the Aadhaar of all the units.
7 lakh units were canceled in the state In
December last year, 7 lakh units were canceled across the state due to non-linking of Aadhaar. In many districts, the ration card of the entire family was canceled. If the head of the family does not have Aadhaar linked, then all the units of the card get cancelled. About 25 thousand families were affected in the state then.
2.41 Lakh Cardholders in Nainital District At
present there are 2.41 Lakh Ration Cardholder families in the district. Earlier, when 58 thousand units were canceled due to non-linking of Aadhaar, then their number was close to 2.25 lakh at that time.
Earlier, the canceled units were given time to link Aadhaar. Even after this, 40 thousand units are still not linked with Aadhaar. Due to which there is a problem in online authentication. Even if many units have submitted Aadhaar, their names are not matching. Such units will have to be linked with Aadhaar again. Failure to do so will result in the unit being cancelled.
Manoj Kumar Burman, District Supply Officer Nainital
Documents are being asked time and again by the department for linking Aadhar. This has angered the consumers. They are treating it as the negligence of the department. Galla sellers are also now tired of giving the documents of consumers to the department.
Ramesh Chandra Pandey, Adarsh Rationing Dealers Welfare Society Uttarakhand
