Harish Rao urges govt. to supply promised quality rice on ration cards
Former Minister and senior leader of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) T. Harish Rao requested the State government to supply quality fine quality rice ('sanna biyyam') on ration cards, as promised since the cardholders in Siddipet district have been getting inferior quality rice with broken grain up to 50%.
Speaking at a programme organised to distribute new ration cards at Siddipet on Tuesday, he made the request in the presence of Minister for Labour G. Vivek. He explained to the Minister present that the quality issues were high, particularly in the rice supplied as part of the Annapurna scheme once every three months.
Stating that issuance of ration cards was a continuous process, irrespective of the party in power and mentioned that a total of 6,47,479 new ration cards were issued by the BRS government and the present government could cross-check the records available with the Civil Supplies department. It was the previous government that increased the per unit (person) rice quota from 4 kg to 6 kg by lifting the upper limit for the number of persons per card/household for ration supply.
He appealed to the government to check for the quality of rice being supplied on ration cards in Siddipet district and ensure that promised quality of rice was issued as the cardholders were of the view that common variety rice was being supplied as fine rice by re-milling it to prune the grain size. He urged the Minister present to issue rice to new cardholders from this month itself.
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