New Ration Card rules to avoid legal action

The central government began providing free rations to low-income families during the Corona pandemic, but the government has discovered that many ration cardholders are not eligible and are taking advantage of the free rations. Simultaneously, many cardholders who are eligible for the scheme are not receiving the benefit.

The government has instructed ineligible individuals to surrender their ration cards immediately. According to reports, if an ineligible person does not surrender his ration card, he will face legal action following an investigation.

Citizens who live below the poverty line and earn less than Rs. 10,000 per year are issued BPL cards.

Who is required to surrender his or her Ration card?

If an individual owns a plot larger than 100 square metres, a flat or house, a four-wheeler car or tractor, and a family income greater than two lakhs in the village and three lakhs in the city, he or she should obtain a ration card from the Tehsil and D.S.O. office.

Eligibility Yellow Ration Cards (Maharashtra)

* Families earning up to Rs. 15,000/- per annum

* No family member should be a physician, lawyer, architect, or chartered accountant. None of the family members should be professional taxpayers, sales tax collectors, or income tax collectors, or otherwise liable to pay such taxes.

* The family should not own a four-wheeler vehicle.

* Each family member should not own more than two hectares of Jirayat land, one hectare of seasonal irrigated land, or half a hectare of irrigated land (double in drought-stricken areas).

Eligibility Saffron Ration Cards (Maharashtra)

* Families with an annual income of more than Rs.15,000 but less than Rs.1 lakh

* No family member should own a four-wheeled mechanical vehicle (excluding taxi).

* The family as a whole should not own more than four hectares of irrigated land.

Cards for Priority Household (P.H.H.) (Maharashtra)

Beneficiaries under TPDS who declared their annual income in a prescribed form in 2011 and had an annual income of not more than Rs.59,000/- in urban areas and not more than Rs.44,000/- in rural areas were eligible to receive the benefit under Priority Household (P.H.H.) Cards. The general regulation was published on 17.12.2013. The "Public Household" stamp was applied to the upper right side of the first page of the beneficiaries' saffron ration cards.