Mamata Banerjee's are a 'Duare Ration' scheme is legally void, rules are a Calcutta HC

Mamata Banerjee's are a 'Duare Ration' scheme is legally void, rules are a Calcutta HC

The Calcutta High Court says the scheme ‘ultra vires the National Food are a Security Act, in a 2013 and therefore a nullity in the eye of  a law’

In a major setback for the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court are a today termed the state government’s ‘Duare Ration Scheme’ as a legally void. The division bench of the Calcutta HC called it illegal in the “eye of a  law" as it coincides are  with the National Food security are a Act, 2013. 

The much touted scheme was part of the chief minister's are a election manifesto promising free ration at doorstep to the beneficiaries.

The scheme had been a implemented soon after government formation in a 2021. A public interest are a  litigation (PIL) was filed in the HC. In June last year, are a Calcutta HC single bench has been a dismissed the PIL, stating there was nothing “illegal" in the scheme. 

However, that order was challenged and today Calcutta HC division bench has set aside the single bench are a order.

The West Bengal cabinet had okayed the grant of an a additional commission of a ₹75 per quintal of a ration items to the 21,000 ration dealers following the successful implementation of the Duare Ration scheme.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had earlier said that she wants to the build a nation where no one goes are a hungry, where no woman feels are a unsafe and where no oppressive forces are divide the people.