1,457 illegal card holders are from Mysuru Mysore/Mysuru: In a shocking discovery, it has come to light that there are 21,232 Government servants, Quasi and Semi-Government undertaking employees who are in illegal possession of BPL and Antyodaya cards. On coming to know of this, the Food and Civil Supplies Department has issued notices to all…
Mysore/Mysuru: New ration cards will be issued only after the State Government shows the green signal, said M.K. Ramani, Assistant Director, Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs. Speaking at a phone-in-programme organised here on Monday, she said that the issuance of new ration card has been temporarily put on hold due to COVID-induced…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Government has decided to distribute Ragi, procured from farmers under Minimum Support Price system, to BPL card holders. Each BPL card holder will get 3 kg of ragi, while those having Antyodaya cards will get 20 kg for next five months from fair price shops. Ragi is in addition to 2 kg of…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Food and Civil Supplies Department has asked all ineligible and illegal BPL card holders to voluntarily return their cards. In a press release, the Joint Director of Food and Civil Supplies Department P. Shivanna said that all permanent Government emplo-yees, staff of all Government aided Institutions, Boards, Corporations and other Autonomous bodies, families…
Bengaluru: In a crackdown on illegal BPL card holders, the Food and Civil Supplies Department has asked all unauthorised BPL card holders to voluntarily return the same to the Department latest by March. Addressing the Department officials at a meeting held in the State capital recently, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Umesh Katti said that…
Mysore/Mysuru: The State Government is seriously thinking of offering free testing for all ailments for Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders in all hospitals including super speciality hospitals. An announcement to this effect will be made in new year, said Health & Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar. Speaking at a meeting of the authorities…
Mysore/Mysuru: Citing ‘technical problems’ and ‘risk involved in collecting bio-metric details owing to Covid-19,’ the application forms to obtain Antyodaya and Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards are not being entertained online in the last six months. The citizens are questioning that while the Above Poverty Line (APL) cards were issued without any hassles why only…
Mysore/Mysuru: In a bid to provide essential commodities to BPL card holders, who have not received grocery and to provide any help, the District Administration and the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) today launched two helpline numbers (Mob: 94498-41196 and Ph: 0821-2440890) to help BPL Card holders. The posters regarding the launch were released by District Minister…
Mysuru: Ration Card holders, who fail to register their biometric fingerprints before February, will not get their entitled rations at Fair Price Shops from March this year. The Government in a circular, had asked all those whose names find mention in their family ration card to register their biometric fingerprints under e-KYC by December last….
Mysuru: With the authorities setting Dec.31 deadline for illegal BPL card holders to return the same, over 81 persons have returned their BPL cards to the designated authorities in the district in a period of four days. There are a total of 7,37,459 ration card holders in the district, including 6,93,966 BPL card holders, 24,597…
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