GUWAHATI: The Gauhati high court has requested police of Kamrup Metropolitan district to recognize the regions in which marginalised families require help in kind of foodgrains and other substances throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and led them to offer aid to these individuals immediately.
The seat of justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and justice Manash Ranjan Pathak handed the leadership while a hearing a PIL filed by Guwahati-based Syeda Mehzebin Rahman, that hunted sough foodgrains and rations cards for both 203 families of Uzanbazar, Bharalumukh, Santipur along with Bhutnath regions.
The bench also asked the Assam government to submit a comprehensive reply within this case in just fourteen days with another hearing date provided on July 13.
“Allow the secretary, district authorized services jurisdiction, Kamrup (Metro) set up its own paralegal volunteers into the slum areas and the regions where departments of marginalised families could be identified,” the court order stated.
Advocate Debasmita Ghosh, counsel for the petitioner, brought into the notice of this court the status of food security of families of Guwahati who do not have ration cards.
“The bread earners of those families are mostly daily wagers employees and national helps who’ve lost their earnings following restrictions were set in place to include the spread of Covid.
For a single year, these households have experienced a difficult crisis fiscally with minimal if any social assistance whatsoever.
Throughout fact-findings, many families living in slum areas of Guwahati have been discovered not to have ration cards.
At least 203 households have applied for charge cards because 2017 but so far the cards weren’t issued,” the PIL claimed.
“We asked the government to supply foodgrains under the National Food Security Act, 2013 to poor families who don’t possess charge cards till they receive their cards,” Ghosh said.
Give foodgrain to Most of marginalised Households, States Gauhati HC
