What is the Ration Card Scheme? The Ration Card Scheme is a government initiative under the Public Distribution System (PDS). It helps economically disadvantaged people buy essential food grains at ...

Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs K.H. Muniyappa said on Friday that the ongoing revision of BPL cards in the State will be over by this month’s end, and people can resume ...

Kalaburagi: Distribution of new ration cards has been halted in the state from past two years, resulting in lakhs of pending applications, officials said. The govt took this action on the pretext of ...

Think a Below Poverty Line (BPL) or indigency certificate, meant to ensure medical aid to the poor, actually works? Not quite. Fifty-eight-year-old Sridhar Nar, an unemployed father, has been running ...

Protests erupted among poor families after their Below Poverty Line status was revoked without notice, threatening access to essential resources. Anger is brewing among the city’s poor after hundreds ...