CIC directs govt to rectify mistakes
Taking serious note of the fact that more than one lakh ration card holders in the city are not getting benefit due to faulty entries in the database of Delhi government, the CIC has asked the government to rectify the mistakes.
The CIC directions have come after the food and civil supplies department showed records of some 44,172 ration card holders who were not given ration because their details were not in the database of the city government.
While talking to the media on Tuesday, information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi said: “The respondent (food and civil supplies department) states that this has happened because the computer systems are not working properly and connectivity is unreliable and extremely poor. The respondents have also informed the commission that a large number of card holders (around 70,000) in the category of un-reviewed cards are also suffering because of inefficient operation of computer systems.”
Mr Gandhi directed the food commissioner to look into the disenfranchisement of over one lakh families in Delhi because of improper functioning of the computer systems and submit action taken report before April 20, 2011.
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