AAJ TAK Lies AAJ TAK Lies AAJ TAK Lies Centre issued criteria for identifying BPL families for issuing ration card in 2004 and has not revised since then Gandhinagar, 2 February 2014 Government of Gujarat today clarified the factual position on a report appearing in a section of media about new criteria for identification of BPL families: Gujarat Government provides subsidized food to 32 lakh families whereas GoI allocate food for 21 lakh families only in Gujarat State Government provides subsidized food from its own sources to additional 11 lakh families **** Centre issued the criteria for identifying BPL families for issuing ration card in 2004 and has not revised since then In this regard, it is clarified that no new guidelines has been issued by the State Government for identification of BPL families. In fact, the State Government merely reiterated the guidelines issued by the Central Government in 2004 about adding income criterion, whos income is less than BPL, for the issuing of BPL ration card to additional families over and above the 21 lakh BPL families as determined by the centre on asset-based criterions only. This step has benefitted 11 lakh additional families as they have now BPL ration-cards though they were not included in the original 21 lakh BPL families determined by the centre. http://deshgujarat.com/2014/02/02/centre-issued-criteria-for-identifying-bpl-families-for-issuing-ration-card-in-2004-and-has-not-revised-since-then/

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