BPL list updated regularly, undeserving families deleted, deserving included: Vikar

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5 Dariya News (Anubhav Suri)

Srinagar , 08 Oct 2013

The Minister of State for Power, Vikar Rasool on behalf of CA&PD Minister while replying to a calling attention notice by Mrs. Rani Gargi Blowria said that the ration cards under BPL categories are issued to a family only after proper verification through the respective committees in urban and rural areas.The Minister added that re-verification of the BPL families is also carried out from time to time and whenever undeserving families are detected the same are being deleted from the lists and the deserving families are included in the lists.Moreover, the Minister said that the efforts are being initiated for digitization of supply chain management system which includes electronic registration and subsequent biometric identification of rationees and same will be enacted in near future.He said that the Government of India is allocating food grains to the State as per the projected population of 2000 and steps are being initiated for operationalizing the census 2011 for extending the scheme of CA&PD department to the leftover population of BPL and APL families in the light of the recommendations of recently enacted National Food Security Act 2013.