The AAP government in Punjab on Monday (March 28) launched the doorstep delivery of ration. The scheme was announced by state chief minister Bhagwant Mann.
In a video posted on his Twitter handle, the chief minister said, “The AAP government has decided to start the doorstep delivery of ration scheme. Under the scheme, good quality ration items will be delivered at the beneficiaries’ doorstep.”
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“Our officers will make a phone call to the beneficiaries and ration will be delivered at their homes as per their convenience and availability,” he added.
Along with the video, Mann wrote on Twitter in Hindi, “Even after 75 years of independence, our people are standing in queues. Today we are going to change this system. Now our elderly mothers will not have to stand in line for hours for ration. No one will have to give up their daily wages. Today I have decided that your government will deliver ration to your home.”
आज़ादी के 75 साल बाद भी हमारे लोग कतारों में खड़े हैं। आज हम ये सिस्टम बदलने जा रहे हैं।
अब हमारी बुजुर्ग माताओं को राशन के लिए घंटो लाइन में नहीं लगना पड़ेगा। किसी को अपनी दिहाड़ी नहीं छोड़नी पड़ेगी।
आज मैंने फैसला लिया है कि आपकी सरकार आपके घर राशन पहुंचाएगी। pic.twitter.com/GxgCcCDfPw
— Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) March 28, 2022
The AAP government had first started the scheme in Delhi. “Unfortunately it was stopped. But in Punjab, we are going to implement this scheme and we will run it successfully,” Mann said.
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AAP convenor and Delhi chief minister Kejriwal said the BJP government at the Centre did not allow him to implement the scheme. “Today, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann has announced doorstep delivery of ration… it’ll be implemented soon. We’ve been struggling to implement it in Delhi for the last four years; we planned out everything but the Centre’s BJP government stopped it.”
In the recently concluded elections in Punjab, AAP came to power winning 92 of the 117 Assembly seats. The Congress, which was in power, managed to bag only 18 seats.