Ration card holders: BJP government ready to cut rice quota of beneficiaries!

Ambikapur (Team Newsbuddy) : Vishnudev Sai’s government in Chhattisgarh has almost completed the preparations to rob the ration quota allotted to the priority ration card beneficiaries? We are saying this because the new ration card of the Chhattisgarh government is pointing towards this. Regarding which Ambikapur District Congress President Rakesh Gupta has made this allegation on the Vishnudev government.

During the time of Bhupesh Baghel’s government of Chhattisgarh or as per the old system, there was a provision to give minimum 35 kg ration to the families with priority beneficiaries. Such families who had more than five members were given 7 kg ration per member. But, the new ration card is pointing towards something else. Meaning, the new ration card has the Prime Minister’s photo on the top. Looking at the instructions on its back cover, it is known that the minimum quota of ration which was 35 kg. Its limit will be abolished and ration will be allotted on the basis of the number of family members. In the old system, even if the number of members in a family was three, that family was also given a minimum of 35 kg ration. But, according to the new ration card, ration will be given to each member of the family by calculating on the basis of 5 kg.

Let us understand this through an example – if there are five members in a family, then according to the instructions given in the new ration card, it will get only 25 kg of rice every month. In the old ration card, there was no limit on such number of members. Without calculating the number of members, the family was given 35 kg of rice in lump sum. Not only this, if there were more than five members in the family, the quota of ration rice increased by seven kg per member. Through the new system, the quota of 7 kg per member has been reduced to 5 kg. The instructions in starred point 3 of the back cover of the new ration card are a robbery by the government on the interests of the priority beneficiaries.