By Express News Service
Published: 19th January 2015 06:00 AM
SANGAREDDY: The district got tremendous response from public in submission of applications for pensions and food security cards after the administration gave another chance, as about 36,000 applied for pensions and food security cards.
The districts administration allowed people to apply for food security cards and pensions again on January 16 and 17. People waited in long queues in front of tahsildar offices like before but the officials said rejected candidates are applying once again.
The officials have been repeatedly saying that after perfect scrutiny only the food security cards and pensions have been sanctioned by the authorities concerned. But by giving old age pension to 5th class student and sanctioning pensions to financially sound families, the goof ups in the process have once again come to the fore.
Earlier, about 3.50 lakh applied for both pensions and food security cards and of them, 1 lakh got eligibility after scrutiny. Of the rejected, many are 60 per cent handicapped and over 70 years.
The officials sanctioned old age pensions according to Aadhaar cards but there were a lot of mistakes in Aadhaar cards. All the rejected were due to data entry errors. The rejected applicants utilised the opportunity given by officials on January 16 and 17.
About 21,000 applications came for pensions and 15,000 applications for food security cards. If we analyse applications constituency wise, Medak is on top with 2,304 applied for food security cards and 2,394 for pensions, followed by Sangareddy with 2,984 for food security cards and 822 for pensions.
Siddipet constituency officials received 694 applications for food security cards and 517 for pensions. In Gazwel constituency, 1,182 applied for food security cards and 2,011 for pensions. In Zaheerabad, 1,464 applied for food security cards and 1,484 for pensions. In Narayankhed, 567 applied for food security cards and 2,651 for pensions. In Andhole constituency, 900 applications applied for food security cards and 3,558 for pensions. In Patancheru, 3,670 applied for pensions and 870 applied for food security cards. In Narsapur, 1,867 applied for food security cards and 2,650 for pensions.