By Express News Service
Published: 14th January 2015 06:00 AM
HYDERABAD: The civil supplies department is yet to complete the process of enquiries in urban areas like Hyderabad, Medak, Warangal and Karimnagar districts.
The department is in the process of making enquiries to list all the beneficiaries so that they would be included in the 6-kilo rice scheme for every member of the family.
Commissioner of civil supplies C Partha Sarathi reviewed the scheme under the Food Security Act with chief rationing officer, district resource persons and NIC officials.
The commissioner observed that enquiries were completed in all the rural and some urban areas but not completed in some urban areas like Hyderabad, Medak (Patancheru, Ramchandrapuram, Siddipet and Medak (urban), Warangal (Warangal and Hanamkonda) and Karimnagar (Siricilla and Ramagundam) districts. Partha Sarathi said all enquiries should be completed speedily so that all eligible beneficiaries should be supplied 6 kg of rice each on all the Food Security Cards.
Instances have come to their notice that a number of beneficiaries are yet to be identified in some urban areas. The beneficiaries should be identified without further loss of time and depending upon their eligibility criteria, the beneficiaries should be covered under the Food Security Act and no eligible beneficiary should be left out, he said.
He observed that seeding throughout Telangana was about 95 pc but the seeding with database of FSC ranged from 57 pc to 75 pc in the districts, and the average seeding throughout the state was 66 pc.
The commissioner of civil supplies categorically reiterated that no eligible beneficiaries should be left out without supply at 6 kg rice on the pretext that he had not been allotted the Aadhaar number. In such cases temporary approval for release of quota can be given and the individuals may be requested to furnish the Aadhaar number later so that no ineligible name crops up in the database so that there is no pilferage of essential commodities leading to black-marketing of the commodities.