The problem is simple. Politicians vote bank and corruption. Ration Card IS ONLY FOR RATIONS! Today it is legally and officially (Our Civil Supplies Dept has even sent a notification/published in newspapers on Consumer Protection Council insistence) NOT VALID FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE! Why all these illegalities, no action on illegalities,and poor people in these difficult times where essential commodities prices have gone through the roof, NOW CANNOT GET A RATION CARD,EVEN IF THEY SURRENDER THEIR VILLAGE CARD/OBTAIN PROOF, and they have an Aadhar card, children in school and a bank account ? Any citizen of India anywhere should not die of starvation or for that matter children due mid-day meals? Million of tons of government stored food grains rotted, year after year, no politician or bureaucrat punished, infected food grains through PDS etc. What an irony!
________________________________ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:08:04 +0530 From: Camillo Fernandes <camillofernan...@hotmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [Goanet] How to be a Goan in 8 steps? www.thegoan.net Message-ID: <bay174-w52ef534554e49ab11a40b6c4...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" How to be a Goan in 8 steps? From a ration card to EPIC, to a driving licence to a Passport and now the Aadhaar Card, becoming a Goan is easy for a migrant Team Goan ,Mangor 20 July 2013 This is easily the mother of all stories on the politics of migration. A former Vasco Councillor - a migrant - had his name in three electoral rolls, one in Vasco and two in his native Uttar Pradesh.But as we found out, you don?t need to be councilor to be on electoral rolls easily. The seemingly innocuous ration card creates new Goans. A journey through the slums of Mangor is a revelation of how Goa has enabled many migrants to have dual identities and hence dual benefits. One as a Goan and another one back home.?Though it has become stringent now, it was very much possible in the past to make a Ration Card which would open up multiple opportunities for you,? explains Anil Chopdekar, former Vasco Councillor from Mangor. The process is fairly simple. A migrant labour first comes to Goa and takes up a job. The luckier ones get registered with a contractor, while the free floaters search for jobs at daily wages. Next they approach the local panch or councillor to get a ration card. ?We get food cheaper from the government with the ration card and then we can also include the names of our family members and relatives when they join us later,? explains Seetharamaiah K from Bijapur who resides in Patrong, Baina. These ration cards as we found out are separated into different ration cards as the family expands.The ration card is next used to apply for a driving license and including the migrant?s name in the voter?s list as well. Both require a No Objection Certificate from the landlord and the local panch or councillor who willingly obliges. ?We were constantly under pressure from the local MLAs past and present, and other elected representatives and party functionaries to include names in voter?s list not very long ago. Thankfully now we insist on deletion certificates, which are proof of that fact that you have deleted your name from a ration card in your earlier place of residence,? says a senior official at Mamlatdar?s Office in Vasco.The ration card emerges as key factor too,o in getting the migrant a permanent address of sorts that helps him procure his PAN Card, open a bank account, apply for a driving license and even apply for a passport. ?Why just these documents, even the Adhaar card can be made using the ration card. What we have is one document that is illegal, since the migrant has often not surrendered his card back home, to create a whole series of documents?, points activist Yatish Naik. No wonder then that many of Goa?s MLAs have offered to setup Adhaar card kendras in their own offices. The migrant continues to have a permanent home away from home and a dual identity thanks to a willing governance system. How to be a Goan: A migrant's primer STEP 1 - Get Ration Card Helping Hand ? landlord?s NOC + local MLA?s letter or local Panch / Councillor undertaking) STEP 2 ? Get Gas / Electricity / Water / Telephone Connection Helping Hand ? Ration card plus landlord?s NOC and letter from local MLA STEP 3 ? Inclusion in Voter?s List Helping Hand ? Ration Card + local MLA?s or local Panch / Councillor?s letter, and Affidavit of residence) STEP 4 ? EPIC or Voter?s Identity Card Helping Hand ? Inclusion in Voter?s List STEP 5 ? Driving Licence Helping Hand ? Ration Card STEP 6 - Bank Account Helping Hand ? Ration Card or EPIC or Driving Licence STEP 7 ? Passport Helping Hand ? Ration Card + Driving License + EPIC STEP 8 ? Aadhaar Card Helping Hand ? Ration Card + Passport or Driving Licence or EPIC + Gas / Electricity / Water Connection