NFSA ROW: B’NGIR ADMIN TO BOOK 57 GOVT STAFF Sunday, 10 January 2016 | SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar

NFSA ROW: B’NGIR ADMIN TO BOOK 57 GOVT STAFF

Sunday, 10 January 2016 | SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar

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The Balingir district administration has decided to lodge FIRs against the 57 Government employees of Gudvella, Belpada Khaprakhol and Loisingha blocks for obtaining ration cards under the Nation Food Security Act (NFSA) in violation of guidelines.

District Collector M Muthukumar informed this at a Press conference held here on Friday evening.

He said Gudvella BDO has already lodged a complaint at the Tusura police station against four employees. While Belpada BDO has been asked to lodge complaints against 18 employees, Khaprakhol BDO has been advised to do so against 17. Similarly, Loisinga BDO to to lodge FIRs against 18 Government employees, said the Collector.

“This is the situation in four blocks. The situation of the rest 10 blocks will be known later. Action will also be taken against those  who have facilitated inclusion of government employees,” added Muthukumar.

He further informed that a total of 956 families have been deleted from the ration card list while 573 families have voluntarily withdrawn cards. A total of 61,647 people have been included in the list, he said, adding that the process would continue till all genuine beneficiaries are included.

When asked about exclusion Halanbhata GP from the NFSA list, he said the whole thing occurred due to late data entry by the outsourcing agency.

The eligible list of the GP has arrived and they would receive rice and wheat soon.

In an interesting development, in the initial stage, the Civil Supply office received application of more than one lakh people of Bongomunda block where as the eligible beneficiary from that block was maximum 80,000.

District Collector sought the cooperation of media men to make the NFSA list error-free and inclusion of genuine beneficiaries in the list.