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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Delhi, cancellation of 2.5 lakh ration cards sparks tussle between AAP government, bureaucracy -Vijayta Lalwani

In Delhi, cancellation of 2.5 lakh ration cards sparks tussle between AAP government, bureaucracy -Vijayta Lalwani

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published Published on Sep 5, 2018   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2018
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Questions arise again over Delhi’s welfare delivery system – close on the heels of the starvation deaths of three girls in July.

In May, Ram Baran, a resident of Savitri Nagar in Delhi, received a letter from the ration circle office stating that his ration card would be cancelled because he had not collected foodgrains between January and March. The letter added that unless he submitted his Aadhaar number, electricity bills and other documents that could serve as proof of identity to the circle office, his ration would not be restored.

“I have been bed-ridden for two years,” said 69-year-old Baran. “I cannot go to collect my rations or send anyone to collect them for me. Nobody came to tell me my ration card has been cancelled. What will I do now?”

Baran is not the only one facing the consequences of Delhi food commissioner Mohanjeet Singh’s decision on August 20 to cancel 2.5 lakh ration cards on the grounds that beneficiaries had not collected their rations for three months. Days later, the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi promised to restore all the cancelled ration cards.

The three-month rule is followed by both the Delhi government and the Centre.

However, the matter has since turned into yet another flashpoint between the Aam Aadmi Party government and the Delhi bureaucracy, and by extension the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Centre, which oversees much of the Capital’s administration. The political squabble assumes greater urgency as it comes in the wake of the starvation deaths of three sisters, aged between two years and eight years, in Delhi on July 25, leading to questions about the Capital’s welfare delivery system.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that the food commissioner – who answers to the Central government-appointed lieutenant governor – cancelled the ration cards without proper verification. And in his order to food supply officers to restore the ration cards, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain was quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying, “Any death occurring in Delhi due to starvation/non-availability of ration to the otherwise eligible beneficiaries whose card has been cancelled without proper verification, shall also invite criminal action besides disciplinary action against the concerned FSO/FSI [food supply officer or food supply inspector] for which they shall be personally responsible.”

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Scroll.in, 4 September, 2018, https://scroll.in/article/893008/in-delhi-cancellation-of-2-5-lakh-ration-cards-sparks-tussle-between-aap-government-bureaucracy


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