The Himachal Pradesh State Depots Association has urged the to defer the use of biometric machines for the distribution of ration to card holders in all government fair price shops in the state immediately.
Associations state spokesperson Sudarshan Sharma said that these machines posed the risk of the spread of Covid among the ration card holders as well as the depot holders. He added that in view of the rise in Covid cases, the card holders were also hesitating from using the machines to avail of the ration from the fair price shops.
He said the families of 5,000 depot holders and 18.50 lakh consumers were under the constant threat of contracting Covid while using these biometric machines at the depots.