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Collector S. Kandasamy connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) inspected the door-to-door organisation of tokens to ration cardholders for receiving Pongal acquisition hampers successful assorted parts of the district.
The inaugural follows the announcement by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin that, to guarantee the peculiar solemnisation of the Pongal festival successful 2026, each atom ration cardholders and families residing successful Sri Lankan Tamil Rehabilitation Camps volition beryllium provided with a Pongal acquisition hamper comprising 1 kilogram of earthy rice, 1 kilogram of sugar, 1 full sugarcane and ₹3,000 successful cash.
In Erode district, the acquisition hampers are being distributed done 1,270 just terms shops. These see 1,253 shops operated by the Cooperative Department (913 full-time and 340 part-time), 15 shops tally by the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (14 full-time and 1 part-time), and 2 just terms shops operated by women self-help groups. A full of 7,46,528 ration cardholders are expected to payment nether the scheme.
The Chief Minister is scheduled to inaugurate the organisation of the Pongal acquisition hampers successful Chennai connected January 8, 2026. To forestall overcrowding astatine just terms shops, arrangements person been made to administer tokens indicating the day and clip for collection. Fair terms store unit are issuing these tokens successful advance, and the process is presently nether mode crossed the district.
As portion of the preparations for the festival, the Collector besides inspected sugarcane procurement from farmers. He visited sugarcane cultivation areas successful Gobichettipalayam and Gugalur and reviewed the taste, tallness and wide prime of the produce. Later, helium examined the door-to-door token organisation successful Polavakkalipalayam and Vellalapalayam, verifying the details mentioned connected the tokens. He besides inspected the prime earthy atom and sweetener procured for organisation astatine the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Society just terms shops successful Gobichettipalayam, Lakkampatti and Karattadipalayam.
Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies P. Gandharaja and officials from departments acrophobic were contiguous during the inspection.
