Submit EPIC, Aadhaar details, ration card applicants told

 Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim has said all those who have submitted applications for new ration cards and have failed to submit Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC)/Aadhaar details, should furnish details within 15 days.

Briefing reporters, on Wednesday, he said if they fail to furnish details, then applications will be rejected without any intimation.

Food and Civil Supplies Department in Dakshina Kannada District has received 77,670 applications seeking new ration cards. Of which, 17,232 applications are yet to be disposed of and 5,976 applicants have furnished EPIC details. The remaining 11,256 applicants have failed to furnish EPIC details. Without furnishing EPIC details, ration cards cannot be generated and distributed. Those who have failed to furnish details should do so at Mangalore One/Photo Centre or respective gram panchayats within 15 days. 

In Mangaluru non-rationing areas, around 4,000 APL ration cards are lying unattended at the office. Though the department has already intimated the concerned applicants through SMS/phone call, they have not come to collect the ration cards. A member of the family can collect the ration cards from the office. If they fail to collect within time frame, then such ration cards will be suspended, he warned.

Free LPG connections
Food & Civil Supplies Deputy Director Sharanabasappa said the government has okayed free LPG connections to 6,100 BPL card holders through urban local bodies in Dakshina Kannada districts under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fund scheme of public sector oil companies.

The beneficiaries will get the LPG connections without any security deposit. The beneficiaries have to furnish the photocopy of the bank pass book, photographs to the nearest LPG dealers to avail the facilities.

The deadline for providing LPG connection to the beneficiaries is March 31.
However, the beneficiaries will have to pay  for gas stove, regulator, lighter and the pipe. Those beneficiaries who fail to collect the LPG connections within the time frame, will not get kerosene through PDS.

He said as per the directions of the government, the list of all BPL card holders have been published outside all 488 PDS in Dakshina Kannada district. If any non beneficiary is included in the list of BPL card holders, then the public can bring the issue to the notice of the food and civil supplies department. All those ration card holders who have failed to link Aadhaar unique identity card or the Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) numbers with the ration cards have to furnish the details through a form which is available at the PDS.
He said that 73 per cent of the LPG consumers in Dakshina Kannada district have been covered under Direct Benefit Transfer scheme for LPG. Bengaluru Urban district is at the bottom of the list, as far as the district-wise coverage of the scheme is concerned.
The oil company representatives said that around 200 consumers in Dakshina Kannada district have said no to the subsidy for LPG cooking gas cylinders.