Ration Card Holders Alert! Government Removes 40 Lakh Ineligible Beneficiaries from Its Database

Ration Card update: Starting from May this year till August, the Directorate of Food and Civil Supplies deleted the identities of 40 lakh beneficiaries from the ration card database.

The names that have been removed belong to deceased individuals, fake and ineligible beneficiaries, and duplicate ones.

This Herculean undertaking was completed by the Directorate of Food and Civil Supplies under the direction of the State Government. The government saved the food grains allocated to the 40 lakh ineligible beneficiaries by removing the recipients' names. The government can now add new eligible beneficiaries to the database for ration cards.

Talking to The Sentinel, Director of Food and Civil Supplies Ankur Bharali stated, "Deletion and insertion of names of ration card users is a continual procedure. We have increased surveillance since May of this year and removed 40 lakh names of beneficiaries who were not eligible from the ration card database. We have benefited from the new Aadhaar seeding with ration cards in identifying ineligible beneficiaries."

Aadhar has been seeded in 57 lakh ration cards, or 97% of them, so far in the state. It represents 89% of the approximately 2.51 crore state-wide ration card holders.

According to reports, the government would decide soon whether or not to permit food grains for ration card beneficiaries who have not yet had their cards seeded with Aadhaar. According to a source, the government would delay food grain distribution to such people until they Aadhaar-seed their ration cards.