Port Blair, Aug 1: The Department of CS&CA has started the exercise of seeding of Ration Cards with Aadhaar number of card holders from December 2015 onwards and the card holders were requested to submit their filled in proforma to their respective FPS.
Following poor response, the department requested all concerned to furnish details of Aadhaar number by June 25, 2016 making it clear that the card holders will not be issued smart card in the event Aadhaar number is not furnished.
However, the information was not provided by many card holders. As such, again a notice was published by press note dated 04.07.2016 regarding publication of list of those card holders who have not yet furnished their Aadhaar number as yet and opportunity was given to them for furnishing the same by 16.07.2016. Individual notices through the FPS concerned were also issued. The card holders were also sent SMS message through available phone no. for providing the Aadhaar number. It is noted that still 5787 Number of ration cards could not be seeded in South Andaman (except Little Andaman) for want of Aadhaar number.
As Aadhaar seeding is mandatory for ration card for obtaining the food grains under subsidy, the 5787 number of ration cards of South Andaman (except Little Andaman) are hereby suspended as it is evident that these number of cards are not operational otherwise the beneficiary would have definitely approached the FPS for lifting of food grains and submitted the Aadhaar debits as done by more than 55,000 odd card holders. The lists of such cards have been published in website: dcsca.andaman.gov.in as well as in the notice board of the Directorate and circulated to respective FPS for information of all concerned.
Further, one more opportunity is hereby given to these ration card holders to provide Aadhaar number/UID (Unique Identification number) as proof of enrolment before 15th August 2016 failing which the cards that have been suspended now will be cancelled and taken out from the data base.
