Secretary and director of the department K Riachho told reporters at his office today that new ration cards would be issued based on the population according to the Census 2011.
''Once the proposal is approved, the department would start correcting anomalies in ration cards with the help of village councils and YMA branches in their respective areas,'' Mr Riachho said.
It is said that the number of people in ration cards is much higher than the actual population of the state.
According to official sources, there were 3,15,909 family ration cards in Mizoram as of August 31, 2010.
Assuming that there were five members in each family, the state’s population, according to the ration cards, would be more than 15 lakhs, while the actual population, according to the provisional report of the Census 2011, was a little over 10 lakhs.
The food official also further stated that the department was taking utmost efforts to stock rice for the coming monsoon. As of today, 1.5 lakh quintal of rice have been stocked at government godowns in different parts of the state. Besides this, there is 1.6 lakh quintals of rice which have recently arrived Mizoram.
He said remote areas are being given top priority in the monsoon stocking operations.
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