Chhattisgarh Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2004

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    "title": "Chhattisgarh Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2004",
    "short_title": "Chhattisgarh Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2004",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. F-13-8/food/2004/2",
    "act_year": 2004,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Chhattisgarh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Chhattisgarh Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2004",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Central order\" means Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2001;\n(b) \"State Government\" means Government of Chhattisgarh;\n(c) \"Director\" means Director of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Chhattisgarh;\n(d) \"Collector\" means the Collector of the district and includes any other officer authorized by the State Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Collector under this order;\n(e) \"Fair Price Shop\" means a shop setup by the State Government with agreement for supply of essential commodities to ration cardholders of Public Distribution System under this Order;\n(f) \"Public Distribution System\" means the system for distribution of essential commodities to the ration cardholders through the Fair Price Shops, such as rice, wheat, sugar, kerosene and salt and such other commodities as notified by the State Government under clause (a) of section 2 of the Act;\n(g) \"Ration Card\" includes the following ration cards : -\n(i) Ration card issued to families above the poverty line;\n(ii) Ration card issued to families below the poverty line;\n(iii) Ration card issued to Antodaya families (the poorest families identified by State Government);\n(iv) Ration card issued to destitute families under Annapoorna Yojana;\n(v) Other ration card issued for any specific objective under any Central or State Government scheme.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Identification of families living below the poverty line.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Ration card.",
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            "content": "(a) apply for or receive ration card when a ration card has already been issued in her/his name or any member of her/his family and her/his or her/his family members name has been made mentioned in it;\n(b) give incorrect details or information while applying for a family card;\n(c) willfully alter or destroy, deface or permit to be defaced any of the entries on the family card.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Lifting, Storage, Transportation and distribution.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Power of search and seizure.",
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            "content": "(1) Enter any premises used or believed to be used for the sale, distribution or storage for sale or distribution of any essential commodity covered under the Public Distribution System and inspect any such premises and any essential commodity therein or thereon.\n(2) Require any person to make any statement or furnish any information or to produce any document or article in possession or under his control relating to the purchase, sale, distribution or storage of any essential commodity and every person so required shall comply with such requisition.\n(3) Take or cause to be taken extracts from or copies of any document relating to the purchase, sale, distribution or storages of any essential commodity which is produced under sub-rule (2) or otherwise found in any such premises.\n(4) Test or cause to be tested the weight of all or any of the essential commodities found in any such premises. Provided that in entering upon and inspecting any premises the persons so authorized shall have due regard to the social and religious customs of the persons occupying the premises.\n(5) The said authority may also search, seize or remove such books of accounts or stocks of essential commodities where such authority has reason to believe that these have been used or will be used in contravention of the provisions of this Order.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Monitoring.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Number and location of fair price shop.",
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            "content": "(1) Normally in urban area there shall be one fair price shop for area having 1000 Ration cards (amongst minimum 400 BPL or Antyodaya ration cards). The shop in urban area shall be established in those areas that will be convenient to the beneficiaries.\n(2) Number & Location of shops shall be determined, whatever possible on the basis that no beneficiaries should have to walk more than 3 kilometers.\n(3) Normally in rural areas, shop shall be established on the basis of Gram Panchayat as unit but another shop can be established if the distance is beyond 3 kilometers from the beneficiaries. The location of ship shall be in center of these areas wherefrom the supplies of foodstuff can easily be made available to inhabitants.\n(4) In all rural areas, shops must be located in government buildings. They cannot be under any circumstances operate from the residence of any individual. In urban areas the shops must not operate from any place which is also used as a residence but must be a clearly identified shop.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Allocation of fair price shops.",
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            "content": "(a) Allotment of Fair Price Shops to agencies by authorised officer shall be done only to following :\n(i) Large Aadim Jati Multipurpose Cooperative Societies (LAMPS).\n(ii) Gram Panchayats\n(iii) Women's Self help groups\n(iv) Primary credit cooperative societies\n(v) Forest protection committees\n(vi) Other cooperative societies\n(b) In ITDP areas only 10% of the shops will be allotted to other co-operative societies. For allotment of these fair price shops reserved for other cooperative societies, the ex-serviceman cooperative societies shall be given top priority. 33% of all Fair Price Shops shall be reserved for the Forest Protection Committees and Women's Self help groups. All the remaining shops will be allotted to LAMPS and Gram Panchayats.\n(c) The salesperson of all Fair Price Shops operating in ITDP areas shall be appointed from the BPL families of local tribal communities.\n(d) 33% of all salesperson in ITDP area should to be tribal women.\n(a) Allotment of Fair Price Shops to agencies by authorised officer shall be to the following :\n(i) Gram Panchayats\n(ii) Women's Self help groups\n(iii) Primary credit cooperative societies\n(iv) Other cooperative societies.\n(b) In other areas 33 percent Fair Price Shops shall be reserved for the Women's Self Help Groups or other cooperative societies run by women, these shops shall be specified by the Collector. For allotment of fair price shops to other cooperative societies ex-serviceman cooperative societies shall be given top priority.\n(c) Other consumer cooperative societies shall be registered under Chhattisgarh Cooperative Societies Act, 1960. The authorised officer of Cooperative department shall do audit of accounts of Fair Price Shop run by other consumer cooperative societies.\n(a) Scheduled Caste\n(b) Other Backward Caste atleast 33% of all the sales persons have to be women and 10% have to be disabled.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Execution of agreement and deposit of security.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Responsibilities of Fair Price Shopkeeper.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Size of Fair Price Shop and its opening and closing time etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Register maintained by the Fair Price shopkeeper and its inspection.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Exhibition of board etc. at Fair Price shop.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Compliance of instructions.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Penalty.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Food Security Fund.",
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            "content": "(a) To ensure food security in areas where malnutrition levels are very high and possibilities of starvation exist;\n(b) To try out innovative delivery mechanisms in remote areas where the normal delivery system is unable to meet the needs for timely supply of food grains and other essential commodities covered under the PDS;\n(c) To try out innovations to reach un-reached populations of very poor, marginalised and vulnerable people both in urban and rural areas like urban homeless, disabled, tribal people facing displacement/or who are already displaced;\n(d) To strengthen the monitoring system for the Public Distribution System across the State;\n(e) To take all steps that may be necessary to ensure compliance with the orders of the Honourable Supreme Court which may be issued from time to time with regard to the Public Distribution System;\n(f) To meet out any other exigencies as may be required from time to time to strengthen the food security requirements of the State.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Appeal.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Exemption.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Protection of action taken under Order.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Repeal and Savings.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 19th October, 2019 [cg131]",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. F-13-8/food/2004/29, dated 23.12.2004",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2004",
        "Short Title": "Chhattisgarh Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2004",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Chhattisgarh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}