Ghar Ghar Rozgar & Karobar Mission: Sunder Sham Arora hands over ration depot licenses to beneficiaries
Hoshiarpur, January 16, 2021: Handing over licenses for ration depots to six beneficiaries under Ghar Ghar Rozgar & Karobar Mission of the state Government at local DAC complex, the Industries and Commerce Minister Sunder Sham Arora said that Punjab Government would also provide ration depot licenses in villages across the district.
After the launch of ration depot allotment at State Level by the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh through a video conference from Mohali, the Minister, who joined the online program from the DAC here, said that as many as 34 vacancies were lying in the urban areas of districts of which six had been filled through the transparent process.
He said that five licenses had been handed over here while the process of the remaining ones was underway. He also informed that after the urban areas, over 450 ration depot licenses would be given in the rural areas of Hoshiarpur district thus paving a way to ensure employment for unemployed beneficiaries under Ghar Ghar Rozgar Mission.
The Minister said that the Punjab Government had rolled out process for filling 987 vacancies of ration depots in urban areas as well as 6232 in rural areas, which would be accomplished soon through a transparent manner.
Arora added that Punjab Government led by the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had introduced the Smart Ration Card scheme, inter-state portability, which envisaged that the beneficiaries could get their essential commodities from anywhere in the country and from any ration depot across Punjab.
The Minister handed over licenses to five beneficiaries namely Harshvardhan Sharma for ward no 42, Hardeep Singh for Ward no 47, Kiran Verma, Naveen Kumar for ward no 15 and Ashima Singla for ward no 31. Meanwhile, the SDM Dasuya Randeep Singh Heer also gave away one license to beneficiary Kuldeep Singh at his office.
Prominent amongst those present on the occasion included Chairman Improvement Trust Advocate Rakesh Marwaha, Deputy Commissioner Apneet Riyait, Deputy Director Food Supplies Rajnish Kumari and DFSC Rajnish Kaur.