“One nation, one ration card” (ONORC) should be applied in all states, the highest courtroom steered.
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Friday mentioned states and union territories should implement “one nation, one ration card” (ONORC) scheme because it permits migrant staff to get ration on the place of their work in different states as effectively the place their ration playing cards will not be registered.
The high courtroom additionally took sturdy observe of the delay in improvement of a software program meant to register staff of unorganized sector to create a nationwide database and posed queries to the Centre as to how the advantage of free meals grain until November this yr below the ”Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna” would attain the migrant labourers having no ration playing cards.
A trip bench comprising justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah additionally reserved its verdict on a recent software filed by activists – Anjali Bharadwaj, Harsh Mander and Jagdeep Chhokar – searching for instructions to the Centre and states to make sure meals safety, money transfers, transport services and different welfare measures for the migrant staff on grounds that they’re in dire want for assist because the disaster is larger this time.
The bench requested the Centre, the petitioner activists and the states to file written notes within the matter.
The software was filed within the pending suo motu case of 2020 on the difficulty of issues confronted by migrant staff because of curbs clamped in nation amid a resurgence of COVID-19 circumstances.
During the listening to, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, showing for the Centre, mentioned that states like Delhi, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Assam haven’t applied the “one nation, one ration card” (ONORC) scheme to this point.
The counsel for Delhi, nonetheless, opposed the submission saying it has been applied.
On being informed by the counsel for West Bengal that there have been sure points with seeding with the Aadhaar numbers, the bench shot again saying, “You must implement it. This is for the welfare for migrant workers who can get ration in every state”.
The bench mentioned that it was involved with as to how these migrant staff, who don’t have ration playing cards, would be capable of avail the advantages of welfare schemes.
“What about the registration of workers of unorganized sectors. Why should development of a software take so long. You initiated it perhaps in August, last year and it is still not over,” the bench requested Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati who was additionally showing for the Centre.
The bench requested as to why the Centre nonetheless wanted some extra months for making the software program which may help getting ready a nationwide information of staff.
“Why do you still need three-four months. You are not conducting any survey – but you are only creating a module so that data can be fed to your mechanism,” it noticed.
The mechanism, which is being made, might be “robust” and this is able to assist authorities in “monitoring and supervision” of the schemes.
“Why will it take so many months. You are only preparing a software for creating the national database,” the bench noticed.
At the outset, senior advocate Dushyant Dave, showing for the activists, mentioned the welfare schemes be should be prolonged to all those that don’t have the ration playing cards as the issues this yr is graver.
In response, the Solicitor General submitted that the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna has been prolonged to November this yr and free 5 kilo grams of meals grains monthly can be supplied to every member of such households and furthermore, the opposite welfare schemes should be formulated and applied by states.
