AGARTALA:
The Tripura government has completed 100 per cent linkage of Aadhar with ration cards in the state.
This was informed during a review meeting of the Department of Food, Public Resources and Consumer Affairs under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, on February 7.
At the review meeting, the secretary of the department Sharadindu Chowdhury said that there are currently 1,884 ration shops in the state and out of these, 466 are in urban and 1,418 are in rural areas.
“Ration materials are being provided through biometric authentication to protect consumer rights in ration shops. With the completion of 100 per cent linkage of Aadhaar with ration cards, real beneficiaries can collect their goods from ration shops,” Chowdhury said, adding that with this linkage all the procedures starting from stock management to delivery of goods can be monitored online.
He also informed that the state government has decided to open 408 additional ration shops in the state, of which 159 have already been set up.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister also informed that under the Prime Minister’s Ujjwala Yojana, LPG customers in the state will receive gas cylinders at their doorsteps.
“The central government, through the Indian Oil Corporation, pays gas agencies Rs 28 per cylinder as transportation costs. If any of the LPG agencies refrain from delivering gas cylinders, necessary action would be taken against that agency,” he said.
Reviewing the various programs of the Food Department, Deb said that the present state government has emphasised on transparency in the public distribution system.
He said that digitisation has been introduced in the public distribution system so that real beneficiaries can draw the benefits of the Central government schemes.
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