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Telangana Minister directs officials to deactivate fraudulent ration cards

Hyderabad, May 16 (UNI) Telangana Civil Supplies Minister Capt. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday directed the District Collectors to treat the ration cards' physical verification exercise as a top priority and to complete it within a defined timeframe.
Uttam, who reviewed the advance lifting and distribution of National Food Security Act (NFSA) foodgrains for the upcoming quarter of June to August 2025 in a video conference with district collectors here, said the objective was to ensure that every ration card issued is valid and that food security benefits reach only deserving individuals.
The Minister asked officials to carry out physical verification wherever necessary and to take swift action to deactivate any fraudulent or ineligible cards.
He also assured that no genuine beneficiary would be excluded from the system and that the entire verification process would be carried out in a transparent and accountable manner.
Telangana currently has more than 90 lakh active ration cards, covering around 2.82 crore beneficiaries under the NFSA, the Minister said.
While the flagged cards represent just over one percent of the total, the number of people involved is substantial enough to affect the system’s accuracy and integrity if not addressed in time, the Minister added.
In the meeting, Officials informed the Minister that an urgent verification drive has been launched to examine 96,240 ration cards flagged by the Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD), Government of India. These flagged cards account for 1,62,777 suspected beneficiaries, identified through a national database analysis aimed at removing ineligible or duplicate entries from the Public Distribution System (PDS).
As per the data presented, the flagged entries include silent ration cards that have been inactive for over six months, duplicate beneficiaries registered in other states, age anomalies such as individuals above 100 years or minors under 18 listed as single-member households, and Aadhaar entries including invalid or deceased individuals, the officials added..
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