The Delhi High Court on Thursday canceled the Ghar – Ghar Ration Scheme launched by the Aam Aadmi Party government. The High Court had allowed two petitions of ration dealers challenging the Chief Minister’s Ghar – Ghar Ration Scheme.
Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh said that the Delhi government is free to come up with any other scheme for door-to-door delivery, but it will use the food grains provided by the central government for door-to-door delivery.
On January 10, the High Court had reserved the order on the petitions filed by the Delhi Government Ration Dealers Association and the Delhi Ration Dealers Union.
As reported by Live Law, the High Court had allowed two petitions by ration dealers challenging the Chief Minister’s door-to-door ration scheme. Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh said that the Delhi government is free to come up with any other scheme for door-to-door delivery, but it will use the food grains provided by the central government for door-to-door delivery. Where the Delhi government had made preparations to implement this scheme on March 25 last year. At the same time, even before this, the Center had expressed its objection by sending a letter to him on March 19.
According to media reports, the High Court had reserved the order on January 10, 2022, on the petitions filed by Delhi’s Government Ration Dealers Association and Delhi Ration Dealers Union. Actually, this door-to-door ration scheme was one of the ambitious schemes of the Delhi government, but there was a tussle between the Center and the Delhi government regarding this. At the same time, today the Delhi High Court has canceled this scheme.
The first objection in this case was to the use of the word ‘Chief Minister’ in the name of the scheme. The Center said that the distribution of ration is under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). The second argument was that any change in the NFSA would require a change in the law and only Parliament has the power to do so.
