Fulfilling yet another promise made in its election manifesto for recently concluded assembly polls in the state, the Congress-led Chhattisgarh government in its cabinet meeting on Wednesday announced to provide rice at Rs 10 per kilogram and other benefits to APL families.
Minister for civil supplies Mohammad Akbar and minister for agriculture and water resources Ravindra Choubey briefing media persons about the decision taken in the state cabinet informed that state government is going to make ration cards for all 65 lakh families in the state.
Till the new arrangement is made, ration would be available with the old cards, the leader duo informed.
Replying to a query, the minister duo informed that the state government has also decided to distribute sugar through Public Distribution System (PDS). There is adequate sugar stock in cooperative-run sugar mills in the state and this sugar will be purchased by the state government at a price prescribed by the Center to distribute them through ration shops, they added.