Another 4,800 ration cards blocked for incomplete e-KYC

The Food and Civil Supplies Department has intensified its efforts to enforce e-KYC requirements in Chamba district, blocking an additional 4,800 ration cards for consumers who have not yet completed the mandatory e-KYC process. With this, the number of blocked ration cards has gone up to 8,800 as 4,000 ration cards were previously blocked in the district.

These ration cards will remain inactive until the consumers complete their e-KYC. Only after completing this process will the consumers be eligible to receive their monthly ration. The department aims to increase e-KYC compliance to ensure full transparency in the distribution of subsidised ration under the Public Distribution System.

With approximately 1,36,000 ration cardholders in the district, the department began e-KYC efforts last year.

However, compliance has only reached about 70 per cent, despite repeated requests by the department to the consumers to complete their e-KYC. To expedite the process and improve accountability, cards of non-compliant consumers are being temporarily blocked, preventing them from accessing rations.

Officiating District Food and Supplies Controller Purushottam Singh confirmed that 8,800 ration cards in the district were blocked as part of this measure. He again urged the consumers whose ration cards had been blocked or who had not completed the e-KYC process to comply with the directives.