Lieutenant Governor V Ok Saxena has directed the chief secretary to probe the AAP authorities’s alleged failure to subject ration playing cards to 90,000 poor individuals. The AAP authorities termed the allegations “baseless, malicious, concocted and mischievous.”
The directive got here after Chief of Opposition within the Meeting, Vijender Gupta, accused the AAP-led Delhi authorities of denying important meals provides to 1000’s of households and failing to subject them ration playing cards. He had additionally written looking for the L-G’s intervention within the matter.
Welcoming Saxena’s directive to probe the allegations Saturday, Gupta accused the AAP authorities of exploiting marginalised communities. “The federal government has snatched meals from the mouths of the poor and exploited Dalits,” Gupta mentioned.
The difficulty centres across the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) to produce important ration to the poorest households within the society, Gupta mentioned. Beneath the scheme, 1,56,800 households in Delhi had been entitled to obtain 35 kilograms of ration each month, based mostly on the 2011 census. This included 21 kg of wheat, 14 kg of rice, and 1 kg of sugar.
“On the time when the AAP got here to energy in 2015, 76,458 poor households had been receiving ration underneath the scheme. Nevertheless, after almost a decade, this quantity has dropped to 66,532. Round 10,000 fewer households are receiving ration, whereas the quantity ought to have elevated over the past decade. Of the 1,56,800 households eligible, 90,000 people haven’t been issued ration playing cards, and the Kejriwal authorities has failed to take action,” Gupta alleged.
He additional claimed that in July 2019, the Delhi authorities’s Meals and Civil Provides Division had ready an inventory of people eligible for ration playing cards and submitted it to division minister, Imran Hussain, for approval. Nevertheless, Gupta alleged that Hussain halted the method, instructing that the issuance of ration playing cards be stopped.
He criticised the administration for pursuing an “anti-poor agenda” by halting the distribution of ration.
The AAP accused Gupta of getting “deliberately misrepresented instructions from the Minister of Meals and Civil Provides”. “At one level, contemplating the curiosity of AAY households and candidates and to forestall the misuse by vested pursuits, the Minister had directed the F&S (Meals and Civil Provides) division to maintain the preparation of ration playing cards for candidates in abeyance for a while. Nevertheless, on evaluate of the coverage, Minister F&S accredited getting ready AAY ration playing cards on precedence by a separate queue, and this was put in place by the F&S division through round dated July 27, 2020. Since then, a separate module within the F&S division has been in existence for getting ready AAY ration playing cards on precedence by a separate queue,” mentioned AAP.
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