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NFSA implementation: 2.5 lakh ration cards found bogus 2/29/2016 11:54:01 PM Sumit Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 29: Governor's Administration has reportedly found around 2.5 lakh ration cards as bogus in Jammu region and has held back food grains worth crores which would be distributed among the needy people, sources told Early Times on Monday. "In Jammu only, ration worth Rs 25 Crore has been held up as 2.5 lakh ration cards were found bogus. The ration will be diverted to the needy ones", official sources said, adding, "The exercise has exposed the nexus between CAPD officials and ration dealers". The bogus ration card fraud was detected when Jammu and Kashmir is implementing NSFA in its last leg. Further, the CAPD has so far deleted 3.75 lakh PDS ration cards of influential , VVIPs, VIP persons including IAS, IPS, ministers and legislators etc. The exercise in this connection was done under the patronage of the Governor N.N Vohra. The CAPD has also procured the lists from Income Tax, Commercial Tax and other concerned departments to curtail the ration seekers as exercise is being done to curtail around 2 lakh people from Srinagar. Pertinently, it was targeted that a small chunk of population of around 6 lakh souls comprising persons with income of more than Rs 25 lakh per annum, persons holding constitutional positions including ministers and legislators, employees of the state and the central governments in the Gazetted cadre and a person owning more than 80 kanals of land individually or 250 kanals of land in joint family shall be kept out of NFSA. For such families food-grains would be made available on OMSS (Open Market Sale Scheme) rates. Meanwhile, when contacted Secretary, CAPD, Sourabh Bhagat, said, the exercise is being conducted to streamline the ration system and to bring transparency. While under the existing dispensation only 18.02 lakh families comprising 99 lakh souls are covered under the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Jammu and Kashmir, the implementation of NFSA would cover 22.73 lakh families comprising a population of 119.13 lakh. Notable after implementation of NFSA , 13.73 lakh families comprising 74.13 lakh souls would get highly subsidised rations -- atta at Rs 2 per kg and rice at Rs 3 per kg, another 7.85 lakh families comprising 45 lakh souls would get atta at Rs 8 per kg and rice at Rs 10 per kg. Every family member in these categories would be entitled to get 5 kgs ration per head, except 2.56 lakh families comprising 13.77 lakh souls in the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) category who would continue to get 35 kgs ration per family, irrespective the number of family members.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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