People involved in the error will be punished severely, provide subsidies immediately: Chief Minister

 Sunita thanked Chief Minister for getting her ration card issued in such a short span

 Farmer's delegation from Tamil Nadu paid a visit to Chhattisgarh to understand the implementation of farmer-friendly policies and programs of the Chhattisgarh government

Facility to take ration from any fair price shop in 25 districts of the state

12,314 fair price shops have an e-POS facility, 13,304 shops are operational

Raipur, Under the leadership of Chief Minister Mr.Bhupesh Baghel, the state government is working to provide food security to all citizens of the state. Taking the initiative, the Chief Minister had launched Universal PDS in the year 2019, on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Under the scheme, ration cards have been issued to all the poor and the rich. So far, more than 2.5 crore members have been registered in the state through 69.67 lakh ration cards. In 25 districts of the state, the facility of purchasing rations from any fair price shop of their choice has been made available to the ration cardholders. A total of 13 thousand 304 government fair price shops are operating in the state, out of which e-POS machines facility is being made available in 12 thousand 314 shops.

Food Department officers said that according to the intent of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, ration cards are being issued to cover 100 per cent of families including the deprived, poor and common families in the state. At present 69.67 lakh ration cards are in operation. Of these, 20 lakh 73 thousand 954 ration cards have been issued to scheduled tribes, 9 lakh 62 thousand 168 ration cards have been issued to scheduled castes, 32 lakh 73 thousand 937 ration cards are issued to other backward classes and 6 lakh 41 thousand 692 ration cards have been issued to general category. Under the Public Distribution System, 54 lakh 62 thousand 125 ration cards have been issued in rural areas and 14 lakh 89 thousand 626 ration cards in urban areas.

Officers said that 11 lakh 15 thousand new ration cards have been issued in the last three years, while the names of 5 lakh 52 thousand new members have been added to the ration cards. In the Kondagaon district from November 1, 2020, a pilot project is running under which fortified rice containing iron, folic acid and vitamin B-12 is being distributed through fair price shops to fight anemia and other nutritional deficiencies. Keeping in view the success, it has now been decided to distribute fortified rice in 12 aspirational and high load districts. 

A village in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district had kept a private pig in his house. The team of forest department raided the rural house and was surprised to see the animals.

In the Ratwa village 30 km away from the city of Dhamtari, the forest department team raided and recovered many wild animals from the house of the villagers. Among them, there are 2 children of deer kotari, 2 jackal, 2 dragon and 6 parrots. 

Kawasi Lakhma openly threatened the voters, saying that if not voted, I will take the money of Dhamtari (Sukma), Dantewada.

Dhamtari The excise minister of Chhattisgarh (Kawasi Lakhma) is quite famous for his statements. Sometimes the SP-Collector has caught the collar, sometimes the statements made by the prohibition on liquor ban, Minister Lakhma have now threatened the voters. Let us know that the Minister in-charge of the district, Kavasi Lakhma, who arrived on Friday in the campaign for the urban body elections, gave a big statement. Kawasi Lakhma openly threatened the voters, saying that if not voted, I will take the money of Dhamtari (Sukma), Dantewada.

Minister Kawasi Lakhma said…

During the campaign on Friday, Minister Kawasi Lakhma in Dhamtari said that if he does not win the election of Mayor, then he will take the money of Dhamtari to Sukma, Dantewada. He said that if he wins the election, I will also bring the money of Bastar to Dhamtari. Now this video of Minister Kavasi Lakhma is also becoming quite viral on social media. Also during the campaign, he said that every Congressman will campaign by becoming CM Bhupesh Baghel (CM Bhupesh Baghel). But even then if possible, we will try to get a meeting in the Chief Minister's Dhamtari.

Earlier also gave 'disputed' statement

It is known that five-time MLA from Konta assembly constituency of Naxal-affected Sukma district of Chhattisgarh and current Excise and Industry Minister Kavasi Lakhma are often in the discussion for their statements. Recently, the video of the minister's teacher's program has gone viral. In this video, Lakhma was seen saying to the children that if they want to become big leaders, then grab the collar of SP-Collector. So at the same time, he had given a controversial statement about liquor ban, which caused a lot of uproar.