Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Sep 11: Karnataka food and civil supplies minister, U T Khader, stated that the ration cards which are not linked to Aadhar at the end of this month will be considered as bogus and cancelled. He added that ration card holders in urban areas have time till September 30 to link their cards to Aadhar number. He clarified that if the Aadhar numbers of any of the family members do not get linked this way, names of such member will be deleted.

He was addressing a media conference organized at his room in Vikasa Soudha here on Saturday September 10.

At the same time, if names of eligible beneficiaries have been erased, they can get their names added again if they link the cards to Aadhar number and provide suitable documents.

The minister said that from October onwards, coupons for three months would be distributed at a time, and that the coupon system is being extended to rural areas from next month onwards. "Coupon system has been introduced to identify fake ration cards and with the aim of providing this facility only to eligible people," he explained. At the same time, he stated that coupons would be distributed in rural areas by the department itself as there are technical problems and power supply issues in rural bets. he said that mobile machines will be issued to the districts for issuance of coupons.

Khader stated that process of online admission of new APL cards will be begun within ten days and that new BPL cards will also be distributed beginning from this end.

MLC, Rizwan Arshad, and secretary of the department, Harsh Gupta, were present at the press conference.