It had come to my notice several years ago that there was a vast number of host ration card and that this was the source of much of the black-marketing being carried on by the wholesalers and retailers. The Deputy Commissioner has been instructed to carry out survey to ensure that cards were issued only to genuine residents and I remember speaking to you about this matter myself last year, when you confirmed that necessary action was being taken to reduce all unauthorized cards. I was surprised to hear this afternoon that the number of host ration cards is still very large and out of all proportion to the actual population. I have spoken to Supply Secretary regarding the matter and advised that a notice should immediately issue warning that any person drawing rations against a ghost ration card will be liable to summary detention. You may allow a grace period of say one week fro people to surrender such cards. The necessary announcement may be made through All India Radio and the Press. It is essential that everybody, the public, wholesalers and retailers, should have no doubt in their minds that the Government mean business and are prepared to take extreme measures to endure that supplies are made available at a reasonable price to the people. I almost always finish with dealing the papers that come from my office that very night or the next night at the most, and certainly before I go out on tour. I do not like to leave a cluttered table if am going out anywhere. So what one is able to do has nothing to do with the 24 hours in the day. It has to do with how you organize yourself and your work, how you are able to grasp what is important, what has to be done fist and how out of anything you read or anything you hear, you are able to get the essence immediately. Then, of course, you may have to full in the details and so on afterwards, as one normally does.