Arrangements have been made to provide ration to poor and helpless families by Uttar Pradesh and Central Government. Before Corona period, customer had to deposit some money for this ration. Ration is being distributed free of charge by the government since Corona period till now. In such a situation, the government has started an investigation of ration card holders in Gazipur district, which has found that even those who pay income tax are availing free ration wrongly.
There are 6 lakh 29 thousand 69 ration card holders in Ghazipur. Of these, 59,537 are Antyodaya and 5 lakh 69 thousand 532 eligible household card holders. When the government launched a survey of all types of ration card holders, it came to light that despite paying income tax, many consumers or their family members were availing the ration. The Supply Department has released a list of 16,742 people in view of the ration fraud. The list includes names of people who either pay income tax themselves or their family members pay tax.
16 thousand cardholders may be disqualified
The names of the people have been announced. Now those people have to go to the supply department and advertise themselves. The district supply department has initiated efforts to declare such ration cards ineligible, whose holders fall under the income tax bracket. If any person included in the ration card is an income tax payer then the ration card will be declared invalid. In such a situation, it is estimated that 16 thousand ration cards will be declared invalid.
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District Supply Officer Anant Pratap Singh said this information came to light after matching the database of various departments available on the departmental website by NIC, Uttar Pradesh. There are 16,742 such ration cards in the district, some of which are member income tax payers. Anant Pratap Singh says that such ration card holders of Gazipur, whose family members have actually come under the income tax payer category, should approach the tehsil level supply office themselves and submit their ration card.
KYC process started
Eligibility for ration card ceases once any member of the family falls into the income tax bracket. Let us tell you that under this scheme, a total of 35 kg of food grains including 14 kg of wheat and 21 kg of rice are given free of cost to Antodya card holders, while two kg of wheat and three kg of rice are distributed per unit on the card. . The department has also started the process of conducting KYC for all ration card holders.
Reduction in ration card units due to non-KYC
Due to KYC, the number of ration card holders or their units has reduced significantly, as many of the members whose names are included in the ration card have moved out of the district for study or work, due to which KYC is not being done by such people, the number of ration card units is also high. has decreased.
