Statesman News Service
MALDA, 11 FEB: Following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed with the Calcutta High Court against the state government, the Malda district administration has stopped the distribution of family ration cards in two blocks- Gazole and Chanchal- in the Malda district.
The district administration has started the distribution of family ration cards experimentally identifying the two blocks as a pilot project for distributing ration cards based on the draft BPL lists in Malda. The district received an order from the HC which said that no ration cards would be replaced or cancelled until the PIL was disposed of.
Mr Priyabrata Ganguly filed the PIL (1825(W)/ 2010) and the next hearing was held on 8 February. “We have not yet concluded on a decision after the last hearing of the case held on 8 February but we have stopped the distribution of family ration cards following the first court order”, said the additional district magistrate (land reforms) Mr K N Dew, who is also the in charge for this section.
The state government however had planned to complete BPL list and procedure of the distribution of family ration cards by December 2009. Though the Malda district published the draft list of the BPL families in December, there are several complaints surrounding the publication.
The Malda district administration has been receiving applications of claims and objections for preparing a fresh publication of the BPL lists here in order to include the name of genuine family members in the category.
The additional district magistrate, Malda zilla parishad, Mr Kajal Banerjee said: “The process to prepare and finalise the BPL list is still under way. Distribution of family ration cards however has been stopped for now”.
“The concerned department can prepare ration cards based on the BPL lists but it will not distribute them following the court order”.
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