Mangalore: Present Ration Card Applying System will give rise to Mafia - M G Hegde

By Ashritha D Souza
Bellevision Media Network

Mangalore, 25 Jul 2013: Tulunada Vedike, Sanathana Seva Trust, Kadala Sene and SC/ST Committee, jointly staged a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Thursday July 25.

Addressing the protesters social activist M G Hegde said that the government has recently started issuing Unique Identity (UID) – Aadhaar cards for each citizen. The decision of issuing UID with all required information of every Indian citizen is a good initiative, but there has been unprecedented delay in issuing the Aadhaar cards.

The ration card, Aadhaar card, voter identity card, PAN card and any such inter-related cards should be simplified and issued by the local authorities under each state and union territories, under the surveillance of Card issuing authority of India. Simple methods should be adopted for change of address and other related information in this regard, said M G Hegde.

 

Single Window System, is the greater need to be adopted for issuing all kinds of cards. Every new born child to an Indian citizen must compulsorily get the Indian citizen card at the time of issuing the birth certificates, stressed M G Hegde.

M G Hegde further said that there should be one office to provide applications for all sorts of cards and easy procedures. If the present situations of applying for cards continue, it will create card mafias everywhere and people will suffer. If a sixty-year-old person is not able to understand about his identity card, what kind of system the government has brought? We have more than 25 various cards, if you go to the DC office for land related problems, they will ask for some cards, if you go to apply for ration card they will ask some other documents. Why is the government not able to simplify the ID card system, queried Hegde.

M G Hegde urged the government to take necessary steps to finalize a single card as the National Identity Card which should be accepted by the state / national offices and local authorities across the country.

Tulunada Vedike president Yogish Shetty Jeppu, Sanathana Seva Trust president Nithish C V, President Kadala Sene president Yashwanth Mendon Boloor and SC/ST Committee leader Praveen Veera Nagar were also present.