As of November, Delhi government will launch poll on tracking of inactive ration cards: ministers | Latest Delhi News

Starting in November, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led government in Delhi will conduct a door-to-door poll to track grocery cards that have been inactive for the past two to three months, Delhi’s Food Minister Imran Hussain said . “We will be conducting a door-to-door survey starting next month to check those beneficiaries who have not received a ration for two to three months. We check if the person went to their hometown or is sick. In such real cases, the ration cards are not separated, ”Imran Hussain told PTI on Friday.

Hussain also said that if the grocery card is inactive and the beneficiary does not exist or has left Delhi, that card will be canceled and new ones added. The food minister assured that the food cards will not be canceled without a valid reason. A ration card is considered inactive if the beneficiary does not collect the subsidized ration in fair-price shops for three months.

“There will be some people who didn’t have to come in July but collected rations in August, and some must have skipped August but took food grains in September. Hussain continued. He added that with the use of electronic point of sale (e-PoS), by the end of this month the department will have data on beneficiaries who are disputed not collecting ration.

The Delhi government banned the use of e-PoS devices in early 2018 after receiving complaints about a poor network leading to authentication failures and the exclusion of real beneficiaries. However, the system was restored in July of this year. Delhi currently has around 7.2 million beneficiaries, who are supplied via a network of around 2,000 fair-price shops in the public distribution system.

Delhi Food Minister Hussain chaired a review meeting on September 9 to issue new grocery cards and urged officials to ensure that cases of biometric discrepancies do not cause problems for beneficiaries.