Ensure proper implementation of ration scheme: BJP to CM

Ranchi: BJP state president Deepak Prakash on Thursday asked chief minister Hemant Soren to properly implement the Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, which was recently extended till November. During his address two days back, PM Narendra Modi announced an extension of the free ration scheme to the poor till November citing a host of festivals.
Prakash, the newly-elected Rajya Sabha member, said, “The scheme will benefit around 60 lakh families in Jharkhand. We have asked the government to ensure that the scheme reached all its beneficiaries. During the lockdown, the state government failed in ensure ration to all. In fact, the Hemant government failed in all aspects in the fight against Covid-19 and resorted to blaming the Centre to hide his government’s inefficiencies.”
Hitting back, JMM said it was Hemant who initially wrote to the PM demanding an extension of the scheme. “Last month, the CM had written to the Centre for an extension of the scheme till December and had also met the governor on June 25 to press for his demand. Days later, Modi announced it. What Hemant thinks today, India think tomorrow,” said JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya.
Countering BJP’s charges of a derailed PDS system under their government, JMM said for the first time the state government suspended licenses of 150 PDS dealers across the state for alleged malpractices. “The PDS mess which the Raghubar Das government has created is being streamlined by us now by acting against erring PDS dealers and others,” Bhattacharya added.