Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts will get red parboiled rice under the Public Distribution System (PDS) will get from November by this year said Minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs, Umesh Katti here on Thursday, May 27. Minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs, Umesh Katti organised a meeting, following the proposal to […]

Mangaluru: “Process of issuing Above Poverty Line (APL) cards to public will be commenced soon in the areas where internet facility is availed. Within 15days the family will be provided with permanent APL card,” said Minister for food and civil supplies U T Khader. After inaugurating the stalls which informs about the various schemes of […]

Bengaluru: The norms for the eligibility criteria of the BPL cards have been simplified by the government. The decision was taken in the cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Previously there were 14 eligibility criteria for the selection of BPL cards. But now the rules have been simplified as out of fourteen 10 unscientific norms have been […]

Mangalore :  The Praja Vikas Trust and Gas and Ration Card Users Forum  organised a public contact meeting at Town Hall on January 28, Monday to discuss the problems faced by LPG and ration card holders. Clarifying the doubts raised by  several participants, Deputy Director of the Department of Food and Civil Supplies Sharana Basappa […]

Bangalore: Karnataka’s Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has wasted Rs 54.53 crore by entrusting to a private company the computerisation project to digitise the data collected through a house-to-house survey and issue computerised ration cards to the eligible families. “The Department wasted Rs 54.53 crore through its failure to enforce the agreed terms […]