Summary:
The Civil Supplies Department has also extended opportunity to the illegal priority card holders to voluntarily surrender it at the taluk offices. “In the first phase, we had traced around 20,000 such illegal priority card holders in Kozhikode district and initiated action. Taluk supply officials say that the inclusion of eligible beneficiaries will be possible only after clearing all the illegal priority card holders. The ration shops will be able to serve more eligible beneficiaries on completion of the ongoing checking drive to find out the illegal priority card holders in Kozhikode district. In the first phase of checking, the voluntary surrendering option had been exercised by around 6,000 card holders in Kozhikode district..