Ration Card Holders Urge Govt To Allow Self Declaration On Income Status

Hyderabad, Dec 28 (Maxim News): Keeping in view that the State government is planning to accept applications for new ration cards from today, new beneficiaries of ration card have urged the government to consider a self declaration form for income status while issuing new once and demand the exemption of income certificates.

The beneficiaries and social activists pointed out that in 2018, the previous State government called for the new ration cards, many applicants faced challenges in obtaining income certificates and many were exploited by middlemen and brokers. It is also to be noted here that few applications were rejected without submitting and conducting field-level inquiries and no clear written reasons were provided for rejection.

It would be better if the government streamlined the application process to protect applicants from exploitation and harassment. Last time when the previous government issued an application for a new ration, despite submitting an income certificate my application was rejected, said T. Rahul, a beneficiary. Last time I faced a lot of difficulties in obtaining income certificates as also was exploited by the agents and it got rejected without conducting any field inspection, said another beneficiary.  (Maxim News)

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