Civil Supplies Dept to speed up ration cards application clearance

Hyderabad: Civil Supplies Department has issued orders for clearance of new Ration Cards.

For this two committees are formed with four senior officers and ordered officials to follow the recommendations for clearing of pending new Ration card applications.

A two members committee was constituted for HMDA region and another two members committee for rural regions in the state for speeding clearance of ration card applications. The committee members submitted their report along with recommendations for clearing pending ration card applications.

Instructions are passed on to the District Civil Supplies Officers (DCSOs) and Assistant Civil Supplies Officers (ACSOs) to clear pending applications in their logins within seven days. They should utilize the services of District Project Associates (DPA) for clearing ePDS related works. As applications pendency is at high in Rangareddy and Medchal districts instructed to depute Senior Checking Incharge and Junior Enquiry Incharge.

Necessary instructions were issued to MeeSeva and eSeva Centres to upload Ration Card applications in Department Official format. Operators should capture all the family members' biometric authentication at the time of submission of application form, this may avoid bogus and ineligible applications. Operators should scan and upload valid documents properly without any blanks. As pending applications are more in HMDA area a data entry operator to be drafted in each ACSO office to scan and upload the enquired documents. Regarding this Commissioner for Civil Supplies Akun Sabharwal issued orders.

Commissioner ordered officials to speed up the clearance of ration card applications from June 1st as election code is ended. The pending applications till now should be cleared within seven days after enquiry.

On Wednesday, Commissioner at Chief Rationing Office (CRO) gave appreciation certificates to the CRO officers and employees who performed well in clearing ration cards, solving 6A cases, collecting gunny bags from ration shops. He said governments aim is to issue ration cards to every eligible beneficiary, employees should work in this direction.