Pongal cash: Govt moves HC for ‘sugar cards’ too
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai/Trichy:11.01.2019
A day after the Madras high court restrained the government from providing ₹1,000 as Pongal gift to financially sound ration card holders, the state has moved a modification plea seeking to add one more category – ‘sugar cards’ — to the green list. The plea is likely to be taken up by the bench on Friday.
On Wednesday, a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice P Rajamanickam passed an interim order preventing the state from distributing the cash gift to non-priority household only for sugar (NPHH-S) and no commodity (NC) category of cardholders. The state was permitted to distribute the cash gift to other three categories — all commodities including rice (PHH), all commodities including 35 kg of rice (PHH-AAY), and all commodities including rice (NPHH).
Now, claiming that most of the families in NPHH-S category also belong to economically weaker background, the government wanted the court to modify the January 9 order and allow the state to extend the cash gift to NPHH-S category also.
“The numbers of such families cannot be arrived at this juncture as the economic indices are not available, as the government is issuing the family cards on the basis of residential proof only. Of 10,11,330 NPHH-S card holders as of Thursday, 4,12,558 have received the gift. The balance card holders under this category, most of whom are also from below poverty line category, are affected and are highly disappointed by nonreceipt of the benefit,” the government said.
The high court restricting Pongal gift of ₹1,000 to below poverty line people had sugar and no commodity cardholders returning empty handed in various parts of the state on Thursday. The PDS outlets in Trichy continued distribution till Wednesday evening for all cardholders. The outlets in Shanmugha Nagar and Bheema Nagar saw serpentine queues for several hours to get the state’s “cash support.” The distribution of cash resumed in the morning on Thursday and ineligible categories joined the queues in the district.
The distribution was disrupted, however, in the afternoon after the staffs were informed about the state government’s directive following court’s restriction. According to district sources, about 60% of the cardholders of all five categories already received the money from January 7 to January 10 noon.
Claiming that most of the families in NPHH-S category also belong to economically weaker background, the government wanted the court to modify the January 9 order
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai/Trichy:11.01.2019
A day after the Madras high court restrained the government from providing ₹1,000 as Pongal gift to financially sound ration card holders, the state has moved a modification plea seeking to add one more category – ‘sugar cards’ — to the green list. The plea is likely to be taken up by the bench on Friday.
On Wednesday, a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice P Rajamanickam passed an interim order preventing the state from distributing the cash gift to non-priority household only for sugar (NPHH-S) and no commodity (NC) category of cardholders. The state was permitted to distribute the cash gift to other three categories — all commodities including rice (PHH), all commodities including 35 kg of rice (PHH-AAY), and all commodities including rice (NPHH).
Now, claiming that most of the families in NPHH-S category also belong to economically weaker background, the government wanted the court to modify the January 9 order and allow the state to extend the cash gift to NPHH-S category also.
“The numbers of such families cannot be arrived at this juncture as the economic indices are not available, as the government is issuing the family cards on the basis of residential proof only. Of 10,11,330 NPHH-S card holders as of Thursday, 4,12,558 have received the gift. The balance card holders under this category, most of whom are also from below poverty line category, are affected and are highly disappointed by nonreceipt of the benefit,” the government said.
The high court restricting Pongal gift of ₹1,000 to below poverty line people had sugar and no commodity cardholders returning empty handed in various parts of the state on Thursday. The PDS outlets in Trichy continued distribution till Wednesday evening for all cardholders. The outlets in Shanmugha Nagar and Bheema Nagar saw serpentine queues for several hours to get the state’s “cash support.” The distribution of cash resumed in the morning on Thursday and ineligible categories joined the queues in the district.
The distribution was disrupted, however, in the afternoon after the staffs were informed about the state government’s directive following court’s restriction. According to district sources, about 60% of the cardholders of all five categories already received the money from January 7 to January 10 noon.
Claiming that most of the families in NPHH-S category also belong to economically weaker background, the government wanted the court to modify the January 9 order
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