Tag: Ration Cards

No Vaccine, No Ration: Rumours Spark Jab Rush In Odisha's Sundergarh
No Vaccine, No Ration: Rumours Spark Jab Rush In Odisha's Sundergarh

Unprecedented rush was seen at vaccination centres in Sundergarh district after rumours regarding discontinuation of ration supply to unvaccinated people began to swirl. 

  • Saturday, 14 August 2021
Gajapati villages
Odisha out to stamp authority in border villages eyed by AP

Bhubaneswar: The inhabitants of revenue villages of Akhada and Gudikodha in Gajapati district strangely own ration cards supplied by neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Moreover, a solar lighting project has been undertaken by the neighbouring government in the villages. However, the strangeness gave way to a well thought out strategy of the neighbouring government when a team […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
assembly
House concerned over irregularities in ration card distribution

Bhubaneswar: Members cutting across party lines in the State Assembly today expressed their grave concern over gross irregularities in the distribution of ration card. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, BJD member Padmanav Behera asked the Food Supply and Consumer Welfare department to state about the steps it has taken so far to distribute ration […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Sanjay Dasburma
Surrender NFSA cards by Sep 30 and escape action: Minister

Bhubaneswar: Those who have fraudulently availed ration cards under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) by providing false information can surrender their cards by September 30 to save themselves form punitive action, Food and Civil Supplies minister Sanjay Dasburma said here today. “If they surrender their cards within the stipulated time, no amount would be […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
NFSA a damp squib in Satyabadi of Puri

Puri: The much hyped National Food Security Act (NFSA), which aimed at creating a starvation free society, has utterly failed to reach its destination in areas of Puri district. Even after government’s order to all district collectors to ensure ration cards for the genuine beneficiaries and exclusion of names of the financial upper classes, some […]

  • Monday, 19 July 2021
PDS-irregularities
Deadline for linking Aadhaar with PDS extended to Aug 31 in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has extended the deadline to link Aadhaar numbers with Public Distribution System (PDS) to August 31, failing which beneficaries will not be able to avail their ration from September, an official said. The deadline was extended from July 31 as over 34 lakh PDS beneficiaries in the state are yet to […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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4.39 Crore Bogus Ration Cards Cancelled Since 2013: Food Ministry

New Delhi: Around 4.39 crore ineligible/bogus ration cards have been weeded out across the country from 2013 to 2020 by state/UT governments, the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said on Friday. These ration cards were cancelled as part of the technology-driven PDS reforms initiated across the country to modernise the Targeted […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
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