20,000 packets of dry ration to be distributed in Jaipur soon

JAIPUR: As three MLAs - Mahesh Joshi, Amin Kagzi and Rafeek Khan - met district collector Joga Ram on Friday to take up the issue of distribution of dry ration packets in the city, they were assured by him that 20,000 packets of dry ration have been arranged and will be distributed soon.
Joshi is Hawa Mahal MLA, Khan is Adarsh Nagar MLA and Kagzi is Kishanopole MLA.
“I said there is a huge gap between those who are getting ration packets and those who are not. We discussed these issues with the collector and he assured us that about 20,000 packets of dry ration have been arranged and will be distributed in the city in a couple of days,” Khan told TOI.
“So, he also assured us the figure (number of packets) will keep increasing in the coming days. So, the issue has been resolved now,” he added.
“We urged him to remove all the barriers in distribution of dry ration packets. We also asked him to give ration to all the non-ration card holders in the city. I also pointed out that there are only 20% ration card holders (under food security act) in the city. Also, ration cards of many are inactive and some of them don’t have ration cards,” he added.
Khan on Thursday had raised the issue with chief minister Ashok Gehlot about slow distribution of dry ration in Jaipur city.
Meanwhile, civil society groups blamed the district administration for not including them in conducting the survey in identifying poor people in the district. “We are sceptical of the intentions of the officers and employees of the labour department because they want to show that there are very few workers in Sitapura and surrounding areas,” said Mukesh Goswami of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS).
ADM IV Ashok Kumar on Friday said that on having received information at the war room, the administration helped provide food to 80 children from Bhubaneswar, Odisha, who were pursuing B.Ed from Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan here.