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The State authorities is considering revising the rules to see families successful the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category, Food Minister K.H. Muniyappa said present connected Thursday.
Responding to questions by Rajesh Nayak Bantwal successful the Legislative Assembly, helium said that astir 73% of the colonisation of Karnataka had been declared BPL and was present getting the owed benefits.
“The Union government, however, believes that going by the spot of our economy, lone astir 45% to 50% of the colonisation should beryllium considered BPL. It has introduced caller guidelines for identifying BPL families. The Union authorities has, therefore, removed implicit 7.76 lakh families from the database of BPL families. BPL ration cards, called precedence cards, person been turned into Above Poverty Line (APL) cards, present called non-priority cards. We person got respective complaints from citizens and people’s representatives against this move. We are of the sentiment that the Central norms request to beryllium changed. We are asking officials to survey the rules and find retired ways to unbend them oregon revise them,’’ helium said.
As per rules, immoderate household that earns implicit ₹ 1.2 lakh per year, oregon the gross turnover is ₹ 25 lakh per year, holding onshore of 7.5 acres oregon more, owning airy centrifugal conveyance oregon different vehicles, authorities oregon non-government employees who are taxpayers, were not considered BPL families.
“But we find that adjacent manual labourers who gain ₹500 per day, transverse the bounds fixed by the Centre. Some legislators person complained that immoderate families who person taken loans for concern oregon location operation are forced to wage taxes and that those who run taxis oregon commercialized vehicles person been barred from getting BPL cards,” helium said, adding that officials had been asked to reappraisal specified cases and contented caller BPL cards successful 15 days.
He said helium would constitute to the Union authorities to revise the guidelines.
