Applicants to get new ration cards from today: Kamalakar

KAMALAKAR SAID Civil Supplies Department will provide an additional quota of 62,400 metric tonnes of rice per annum. State will be spending extra `68 crore per annum, at the rate of `14 crore per month.

Civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar will formally launch issuance of new ration cards under “Anna Yojana” in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Monday. Simultaneously, other ministers will follow suit in their respective districts.

In a statement to media here on Sunday, Kamalakar underlined that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has constantly been striving to turn great poet Dasharathi's dream of there being no hunger deaths in Telangana. It is on CM's direction that Civil Supplies Department has started the process of issuing new ration cards to all those who have applied.

The minister said ministers, local MLAs and MLCs as well as people's representatives at various levels across the state will be distributing ration cards to beneficiaries in each constituency. He disclosed that

3,09,083 new cards are being issued without leaving a single application pending. In all,

8,65,430 additional beneficiaries will get 6 kg of new rice every month. Kamalakar said Civil Supplies Department will provide an additional quota of

62,400 metric tonnes of rice per annum. State government will be spending extra `68 crore per annum, at the rate of `14 crore per month.

He maintained that Hydeabad, Rangareddy and Medchal districts have the highest number of new ration cards. With issuance of new cards, total number of cards will go up to

90.50 lakh, benefitting 2.88 crore people of the state.

The minister said state government is spending `2,766 crore a year on distribution of rice at the rate of ` 231 crore per month.