Good news for ration card holders - Minister Super announcement!

Minister Chakrabarty has announced that rice will now be provided to the general public through pockets in ration shops.

Tamil Nadu Food Minister Chakrabarty has announced that rice will now be provided to the general public through pockets in ration shops.

A session of the Legislature is being held to discuss the grant request for allocating funds to various departments of the Government of Tamil Nadu. In response to a question raised by a member of the Legislative Assembly, Tamil Nadu Food Minister R. Chakrabarty said:

New electronic family cards will be mailed to users' locations. Cereals and cashew nuts will be provided through the Public Distribution Scheme. Kezhvaragu is the staple food of the tribal and hill people living in the Nilgiris, Dharmapuri. The Nilgiris, Dharmapuri has the highest number of malnourished and anemic children. In response to the government, the availability of nutritious food and the eating habits of the people will change.

Tamil Nadu Consumer Goods Corporation will be fully computerized at an estimated cost of Rs 50 crore. Prizes will be awarded by selecting the best fair price shopkeepers and weightlifters at the district level.

Thus he said.

Recently, Minister Chakrabarty announced that quality rice would no longer be distributed to family cardholders and that anyone who applied for a family card would be issued a family card within 1 day, following a complaint that the price offered at ration shops was substandard.

Tamil Nadu Food Minister R. Chakkarapani has said that although the fingerprint does not match the point of sale in the ration shops, the products are being distributed.

The first full budget of the DMK government headed by Chief Minister MK Stalin was tabled in the Legislative Assembly at the Chennai General Secretariat on the 18th. Minister of Finance PDR. Palanivel Thiagarajan presented the budget for the financial year 2022-2023. He then issued various announcements. Following this, the debate on the budget has been going on in the Assembly since 10 am yesterday.

In this context, during question time in the Legislative Assembly today, a Member of the Legislative Assembly Barandaman said that there were problems in the delivery of goods due to non-compliance of the family cardholders' fingerprints at the ration shops.

Responding to this, Food Minister Chakrabarty said that ration cards are being issued to individuals who cook and live independently and so far 91 lakh 71 thousand 807 individual family cards have been issued.

He also said that 10 lakh 92 thousand 604 family cards have been issued so far after the DMK took over the administration.