Hyderabad: Beneficiaries to receive ration cards from next week.

Hyderabad: In line with the state cabinet’s decision to immediately issue ration cards to eligible beneficiaries, minister for animal husbandry Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Wednesday directed the authorities to issue new ration cards to pending applicants in Hyderabad limits.

The cabinet meeting which was held under the chairmanship of chief



minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday decided to disburse 4,46,169 ration cards in the span of 15 days.

With regard to this, Yadav said that they received as many as 1.77 lakh applications of which 44,734 cards were already distributed. While 5,353 cards were ready for distribution, 99,014 applications were pending for observation.