Beneficiaries get ration depot licences

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 16

Jalandhar Central MLA Rajinder Beri and Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori on Saturday handed over allotment letters for 97 fair price shops (ration depots) to the candidates.

Participating in a virtual launch of the programme by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh in Mohali, Jalandhar Central MLA Rajinder Beri and Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said the allottees had been appointed by the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department in a month-long exercise following the generation of 124 vacancies of ration depots in urban areas of the district.

They said 184 candidates had applied for these vacancies based on the size of the population in a particular area. They said after scrutiny of documents, 160 of them were called for the interview out of which 142 turned up and today, 97 were given allotment letters for running ration depots.

They said the Ghar-Ghar Rozgar and Karobar Mission had already been acting as a catalyst to transform the destiny of the youth and providing jobs to unemployed youths. They said the district administration had been holding job fairs/placement camps regularly.

Arora hands over six licences in Hoshiarpur

Handing over licences for ration depots to six beneficiaries under the Ghar Ghar Rozgar & the Karobar Mission of the state government at the local DAC complex, Industries and Commerce Minister Sunder Sham Arora said the Punjab Government would also provide ration depot licenses in villages across the district.

After the launch of ration depot allotment at the state level by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, through a video conference from Mohali, the minister, who joined the online programme from the DAC here, said as many as 34 vacancies were lying in the urban areas of districts of which six had been filled through the transparent process. He said five licences had been handed over here while the process of the remaining ones was underway. He also said after the urban areas, over 450 ration depot licences would be given in the rural areas of Hoshiarpur district, thus paving a way to ensure employment for the unemployed beneficiaries under the Ghar Ghar Rozgar Mission. The minister said the Punjab Government had rolled out the process for filling 987 vacancies of ration depots in urban areas as well as 6,232 in rural areas, which would be accomplished soon through a transparent manner.

Arora added that Punjab Government led by the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had introduced the Smart Ration Card scheme, inter-state portability, which envisaged that the beneficiaries could get their essential commodities from anywhere in the country and from any ration depot across Punjab.

The Minister handed over licenses to five beneficiaries namely Harshvardhan Sharma for ward no 42, Hardeep Singh for Ward no 47, Kiran Verma, Naveen Kumar for ward no 15 and Ashima Singla for ward no 31. Meanwhile, the SDM Dasuya Randeep Singh Heer also gave away one license to beneficiary Kuldeep Singh at his office.