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“Make door-to-door visit to check cards”

Field officers should not invite people to a common place with their family cards: Virudhunagar Collector

— PHOTO: G. KARTHIKEYAN

DRIVE BEGINS: Collector Sigy Thomas Vaidhyan, second from left, verifying ration card at Virudhunagar on Saturday; (right) Collector M. Vallalar verifying ration card holders at Chinnayapuram in Dindigul district.

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Field officers appointed to verify the genuineness of ration cards should make door-to-door visit and not invite people to a common place with their family cards, Collector Sigy Thomas Vaidhyan has said.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, she said that people should not entertain any such requests from the field officers.

Any such incident should be reported to the Taluk Supply Officer, District Supply and Consumer Protection Officer or the Collector over telephone.

The 100 per cent verification of 5.43 lakh ration cards that began here on Saturday would be done on Saturdays and Sundays in August. The field officers have been trained to visit houses and fill up the forms. Card holders have to produce their ration cards, cooking gas connection card, electricity card and the voter identity cards. A total of 1,400 persons would be involved in the work.

The Collector inspected the field work at Muthuramanpatti and Soundamman Temple Street.

People may contact the following officers over phone if the field officers do not visit their area by August 20: Revenue Divisional Officer, Sivakasi, 94450 00474; Tahsildar, Rajapalayam, 94450 00661; Taluk Supply Officer, Rajapalayam, 94450 00357; Tahsildar, Srivilliputtur 94450 00660; Taluk Supply Officer, Srivillliputtur 94450 00358; Tahsildar, Sivakasi 94450 00663; Taluk Supply Officer, Sivakasi 94450 00359; Tahsildar, Sattur, 94450 00662; Taluk Supply Officer, Sattur, 94450 00360.

Revenue Divisional Officer, Aruppukottai, 94450 00475; Tahsildar, Virudhunagar, 94450 00667; Taluk Supply Officer, Virudhunagar, 94450 00354; Tahsildar, Aruppukottai, 94450 00664; Taluk Supply Officer, Aruppukottai, 94450 00355; Tahsildar, Kariyapatti, 94450 00665; Taluk Supply Officer, Kariyapatti, 94450 00361; Tahsildar, Tiruchuzhi, 94450 00668; Taluk Supply Officer, Tiruchuzhi, 94450 00356.

District Supply Officer, 94450 00353; District Revenue Officer, 94450 00927 and Collector 94441 84000.

Dindigul

Door-to-door verification should be done properly. Officials should take utmost care in verifying cards as the main objective was to weed out bogus cards, said Collector M. Vallalar.

Talking to press persons at Natham after inspecting the work on 100 per cent verification of ration cards which started in the district here on Saturday, he said that 1,500 persons, including teachers and government employees, had been deputed for the door-to-door verification. About 335 employees from revenue department, 974 teachers in primary schools, and 91 from other departments will be engaged in this work. An officer in sub-collector level would supervise the field staff. The exercise would continue till August 31, he added.

Cooperation of people was essential to complete the project successfully. If the verification official did not turn up, card holders may pass the information to the District Supply Officer, he said. The Collector also inspected Chinnayapuram and Abirami Kuppam in Dindigul municipality and several villages in Natham.

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