Delhi planned to launch the ration home delivery scheme next week.

New Delhi:

The central government has blocked plans to launch the doorstep delivery of rations from next week, sources in the Arvind Kejriwal government said on Saturday.

The central government had flagged several concerns about the scheme in March saying it could result in ration card holders buying grains and other necessities at a higher rate than what is fixed under a central law.

According to the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, the scheme could also make it difficult for recipients of the subsidies to relocate and stall a shift towards biometric verification of beneficiaries.

The Delhi government had cleared the proposal to allow home delivery of rations to all cardholders of the capital last year in July to implement one of the major promises made by ruling Aam Admi Party in the run-up to the assembly polls held in February.

The scheme called ‘Mukhya Mantri Ghar Ghar Ration Yojana’ would let the beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 get the rations delivered home, making visits to the shops optional and eliminate corruption, the Delhi government had said.