Risaldar Street is a little known Bangalore locality situated about a kilometre from the city's main railway station. It has only one fair-price shop. More than a third of its 3,000-odd ration card ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday emphasized the need to identify and gradually remove ineligible BPL ration card holders who fail to meet the criteria set by the central government.

The Karnataka government on Monday asked people possessing Below Poverty Line (BPL) ration cards, despite being ineligible on account of owning either a two wheeler, TV, fridge or over five acres of ...

SHIVAMOGGA: Food and Civil Supplies Minister KH Muniyappa on Sunday said that the State Government is considering revising the eligibility criteria for ration cards. Responding to a question on ...

Karnataka distributed nearly 24.85 lakh tonnes of rice free of cost to ration card holders under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) during the 2024–25 financial year, marking a slight increase from ...

Bangalore: While all the national economic indices are showing a decrease in the population of those living below poverty line (BPL) in the country, Karnataka seems to have bucked this trend if one ...

In the financial year 2024–25, the department has undertaken a process of cancelling ineligible ration cards through comprehensive data analysis.

KPCC Spokesperson M. Lakshman on Thursday lashed out at the BJP for spreading lies that the Congress government in the State was cancelling BPL cards and clarified that not a single BPL card of ...

Ration Card: Major changes are going to be made to the ration card system starting September 30th. With this change, funds will be sent directly to the accounts of these people every month. Let's find ...

What is the Ration Card Scheme? The Ration Card Scheme is a government initiative under the Public Distribution System (PDS).

Muniyappa said he has instructed officials to correct all the ration cards by November 28 and distribute rice to the BPL ration card holders with all the facilities. This comes after some confusion in ...

Digitisation has led to 2.49 crore ration card deletions since 2020, often due to eKYC failures and outdated income norms. Technical glitches, biometric failures and data mismatches are stopping many ...