Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 12: Minister for CAPD Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan while replying to a Calling Attention Notice by Dr. Shehnaz Ganai in the Legislative Council said that ration cards have not been issued by the CAPD Department in Hindi across the State.
Mr Ramzan said that ration cards are being printed in a bilingual format with Urdu and English languages for Kashmir region in the year 2012-13 in general and Hindi and English languages in particularly for Kathua, Samba, Udhampur and Jammu districts through J&K Bank Ltd. He said these Ration Cards were printed on the basis of samples of Ration Cards provided by the respective Directors of CAPD of both the divisions on cost sharing proportion of 60:40 and were distributed among the rationees through the field agencies of the department.
Choudhary Ramzan said that no new Ration Card has been issued by the department for the year 2014-15. He said that the Directorate of CAPD, Jammu had forwarded the samples of old ration cards of APL, BPL and AAY categories to J&K Bank for printing of Ration Cards in the year 2012-13 in Hindi and English for Jammu province.
He said that due to some dispatch error of sponsoring agency, the Ration cards printed in Hindi- English version got delivered at couple of places in the State instead of Urdu – English cards. He said that the issue was immediately sorted out by the Department by retrieving such printed cards in Hindi and were replaced by the bilingual cards in Urdu and English, adding that the cards so retrieved were subsequently delivered in the districts of Jammu, Kathua, Samba and Udhampur.
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