Eligible BPL cards won’t be cancelled: Karnataka Food Minister KH Muniyappa

Karnataka Minister for Food and Civil Supplies K.H. Muniyappa has assured yesterday that BPL cards of eligible families will not be cancelled. The statement comes in the context of media reports and BJP criticism that the revision process of BPL cardholders by the government has led to the cancellation of ration cards for poor people in the state.

Minister K.H. Muniyappa clarified yesterday in Bengaluru that during the revision, only one to two per cent of BPL cards have been converted to Above Poverty Line cards. He



added that after the Chief Minister’s intervention in the matter, no BPL cards will be cancelled and all will be eligible to receive food grains from PDS. He further said that all the BPL cards will be restored, except for those in the names of government employees and income taxpayers.

During the revision, BPL cards were found in the names of 4,036 government employees. A survey conducted in August this year uncovered over 22 lakh 62 thousand ineligible BPL cardholders.