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Ration card just a mouse click away from next month

Aim is to give hassle-free service Civil Supplies Department would get centrally connected to the head office

NEW DELHI: Standing in long queues for hours to procure a ration card or to make changes in it is going to be a thing of the past in Delhi with the city Government all set to computerise the whole process soon.

Come July, all the 70 circles of Delhi's Civil Supplies Department would get centrally connected to the head office, making the sorting and verification process for ration cards much easier and time saving.

According to Food and Civil Supplies Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan, citizens can apply for the ration cards online and the document would be issued in ten days flat after necessary verification.

Besides deleting or adding names in the document will also become easier.

``We want to simplify the process to give hassle-free service to citizens. It will be in effect from the second week of next month,'' Mr. Chauhan said here.

Presently, getting a ration card would take at least three months time as all the applications are processed at the head office under the supervision of Additional Commissioners and Commissioner to weed out bogus entries.

Circle offices

Now, the Government is planning to cut down this process and get the applications verified at the respective circle offices itself.

The Delhi Government has already computerised several of its services under the e-governance programme.- PTI

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