new delhi the aap governments ambitious scheme for doorstep delivery of ration has run into another hurdle with the food department informing the government that it cannot be implemented unless the government gets the centres approval immediately after the supreme court order on the powers of delhi government visavis the centre chief minister arvind kejriwal had overruled all objections to the scheme and directed the food department to implement it immediately under this scheme packets of ration are to be delivered to the doorstep of poor households ruling out the need to travel to pds shops and stand in long queues advt reacting to the latest development aaps delhi spokesperson saurabh bharadwaj said the lieutenantgovernor is exercising unconstitutional control over ias officers by keeping services under his purview despite the sc judgment he is using officers to delay and stall policies and schemes of the elected governmentthe food department argues that the centres approval is mandatory because the subsidised ration is distributed among the poor under the national food security act 2013 the department has informed the food minister that the scheme cannot be implemented without the approval of the central government said sourcesthe ration scheme has been given top priority by the state government it has been unable to get the lgs approval before the supreme court order this was one of the reasons behind the nineday dharna by kejriwal and his ministers inside lg house lg anil baijal has claimed that he has not rejected the scheme and instead advised the government that it be referred to the centre before a final decision is takenafter kejriwal overruled all objections and directed the food department to implement the scheme the department sought the law departments opinion which also pointed out the need for getting approval of the central government the state government considers this to be another instance of bureaucrats doing the lgs bidding and erecting unnecessary roadblocks advt the aap government had claimed in april that it had found open corruption in pds after which deputy cm manish sisodia urged the lg to sack the food commissioner the government had claimed that ration was released to 1550 beneficiaries using only 11 mobile numbers when ideally one mobile number should be used to release ration to one beneficiary the government had introduced a new system from march 1 2018 to address the problems of internet connectivity due to which epos machines were not working properly leading to denial of ration to several beneficiaries under the new system registered mobile phones were used to verify the beneficiaries through a onetime passwordbharadwaj has asserted that the ration scheme was being obstructed to protect corruption in the pds system he added there is a huge corruption nexus between the officers and ration dealers and to protect this nexus some officers are trying to obstruct the doorstepdeliveryofration schemefor the past threeandahalf years it was the lg who was creating obstructions in the implementation of welfare policies for people now that the supreme court