The Right to Food Campaign, a platform of various civil society organisations working in food and public distribution, has condemned a Gujarat district collector’s order to transfer all the ration cards from a Dalit Fair Price Shop (FPS) to another village because of an alleged social boycott by an upper caste community in Kanosan village in Patan district.
The convenors of the Campaign, Aysha and Gangaram Paikra, in a statement said that District Collector Arvind Vijayan transferred the ration cards of all 436 households in Kanosan to the FPS in Edla village last month. They said such an action is against law and urged the administration to lodge cases under Scheduled Caste and Schedule Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
