The BJP on Friday alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi authorities is below the management of “ration mafia” and claimed that its proposal of home delivery of subsidised grains is merely a show to promote a “scam”. Addressing a press convention, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned the Kejriwal authorities can not violate the Food Security Act, and honest worth ration outlets are at its core for the provision of subsidised grains to the poor as they’re lined below the regulation’s provisions and are accountable for any lapse.
“If grains are home-delivered, individuals is not going to get to understand how a lot of it’s going the place and the way a lot of it may need disappeared on the best way,” he said, while attacking the Delhi government for not implementing the “One nation one ration card” scheme and never connecting its ration outlets with digital level of sale (EPOS) machine to “evade” accountability.
“Grains at doorstep is very much a ‘jumla’ (rhetoric). The Delhi government is under the control of ration mafia,” Prasad alleged.
“You need to break the regulation. You need to throw mud into the eyes of the individuals of Delhi. The central authorities procures and spends cash on the scheme and you must observe the regulation,” he said.
With Kejriwal targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government for not approving his dispensation’s home delivery scheme, the senior BJP leader said the chief minister is free to launch a separate scheme outside the Food Security Act-covered programme.
Prasad noted that the Centre provides 37,573 tonnes subsidised grains to 73 lakh people in Delhi at the cost of Rs 1,163 crore, asserting that the interest of Delhi is very much its interest as well. The central government is annually spending Rs 2 lakh crore to give subsidised ration to people, he said.
Taking a swipe at the Aam Aadmi Party leader, he said the Delhi government could not deliver medicine and oxygen to people at home but it is now talking about delivering grains at home. To help migrant population receive their quota of ration at their place of work, the central government launched “one nation one ration card” scheme however Delhi is among the many three states which has not carried out it.
The Kejriwal authorities additionally stopped e-authentication of ration outlets inside 4 months of its launch in 2018 after lakhs of faux ration playing cards have been noticed, he claimed and a sought reply from the chief minister as to why the method was not accomplished. The Delhi authorities additionally has no information on dalit and tribal beneficiaries of the ration scheme, he mentioned.
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