Harassment For New Ration Cards.

Sabroom, Tripura, 11th of February, 2025 : Residents of remote areas have been harassed for months, and some for years, when they came to the Sabroom Sub-Divisional Magistrate office to apply for new ration cards.  Officials or staff at a ration card office while trying to apply for a new ration card, often involving demands for unnecessary documentation, excessive delays.  People who come to the SDM office are constantly being harassed, and today they are being harassed. The complaint is also against the SDM Shibajyoti Dutta,. New ration card holder complained and further said that today, when they first went to the Sub-Divisional Food Department office, they were told to come later, like other times.

New ration card holder asked to official of the subdivision of food department how long coming from far-flung areas of the subdivision would have to go around the office like this, Ranjan Tripura, an official of the subdivision food department, became furious. He tore up the submitted documents in front of the people present. And what is even more surprising is that when they went to the Sub-Divisional Magistrate’s office with this complaint, they were subjected to extreme mistreatment there too, expressing their anger at the hands of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Shibajyoti Dutta.

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