Manish Sisodia blames CS over delay in report of ration delivery

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia targeted Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash on Tuesday and blamed him over the delay in the doorstep delivery of ration services in the Capital.

The issue was discussed in the previous Cabinet meeting in which the government had asked Prakash to prepare the report on e-POS machines and submit it in a week. Fair Price Shops in the Capital, which sell ration, will no longer use the e-POS Aadhaar-linked machine for distribution of ration, the Cabinet had decided during the matting. The shops will, instead, give ration by verifying details on ration cards, which is the way it was being done till November last year.

"The chief secretary was told to submit the report by the Cabinet meet but he has not even worked on it. In the last one week, he has not worked on the report which should ideally have been prepared by this time. He has been once again told to complete the process and submit the details at the earliest," Sisodia said.

In a public meeting in the Capital earlier this month, people had narrated how they were forced to go to the ration shops several times to get their quota. Some people had complained that even when their fingerprints were not authenticated, the records revealed that their share of ration had been disbursed already.

The delay in the doorstep delivery of ration services was apparently also discussed in the meeting that took place at the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last week. Prakash was allegedly attacked by few AAP MLAs after which the matter was reported to the police. The incident has led to an open war between the bureaucrats and the AAP ministers.