23 january 2014-Srinagar TKSNN :Director Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CA&PD) department Thursday said that fro Kashmir Valley, department has not printed any ration card form in Hindi. He however said that ration card forms were printed in English and now the department had decided to re-print these forms in English and Urdu simultaneously.
“All the Assistant Directors have been directed to print the ration card forms in Urdu and English and from onwards the ration card holder will get forms in Urdu and English as per their choice,” Director CA&PD Mushtaq Ahmed Mir told CNS adding that the department will bear the expenditure incurred on reprinting of ration card forms.
Mir did not say how much extra cost the department has to pay for the ‘inadvertent’ error. “I don’t know about the extra cost but all the AD’s of the department will reprint the ration card forms as per their requirement,” he said.
Pertinently, last time, Jammu and Kashmir Bank had printed 22 lakh ration cards for the department. The Bank had born 40 per cent expenditure on those cards while the price of each ration card was around Rs 12.8 paia that amounted to Rs 2,81,60000.