Bengaluru: Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has collected a whopping Rs. 13.5 crore fine from  4.6 lakh ineligible BPL card holders. Ironically, 21,232 such card holders are Government employees from whom alone Rs. 11.2 crore fine was collected. The drive to weed out ineligible card holders began in Feb. 2022 and the data…

Mysore/Mysuru: With the Congress Government promising to implement its five poll guarantees — Anna Bhagya, under which each BPL card member will get 10 kgs of rice for free, Yuva Nidhi, under which unemployed youth will get a monthly allowance (Rs.3,000 for graduates and Rs. 1,500 for diploma holders), Gruha Jyothi scheme (200 units of …