The Maharashtra government’s Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department under ‘one home one ration card’ has conducted a drive to eliminate duplicate ration cards with the same address.
As per reports, Nagpur, Mumbai, Thane, Palghar are among the top 6 districts with the highest number of duplicate ration cards. It has been detected that Mumbai has a total of 10,798 such cards.
In Mumbai, Andheri was reported to have 4,396 duplicate ration cards, Parel 2,636, Wadala 2,133, and Kandivali 1,633 with the same address.
The ‘one home one ration card’ drive will continue in the coming months and more duplicate ration cards will be cancelled, said the official.
It has been found that many families were getting two to three times more food grains than they are eligible for. It was also found that these families sold the extra food grains to traders or in the market. To stop the misuse, the drive was started by the department and within the first week of June, they found 2,32,766 out of which 1,27,810 duplicate ration cards were cancelled. For the rest of the cards, scrutiny is going on, said the officer.
The Central government provides food grains at low costs under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) scheme, for which many beneficiaries have registered with multiple cards with the same address, leading to heavy losses to the state exchequer.
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