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`Revise yardstick for issuing yellow cards'

By Our Staff Correspondent

UDUPI, NOV. 4. V.S. Acharya, MLC and senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has urged the State Government to revise the yardstick for selecting families for yellow cards under the Public Distribution System in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts.

He told presspersons here on Thursday that at present, only 78,722 persons had been given yellow cards. This was only 37 per cent of the 2.11 lakh families (according to the 2001 Census) in the district.

Conditions

The Principal Secretary to the Department of Food and Civil Supplies, Kaushik Mukherjee, had written a letter to the Udupi Deputy Commissioner in September asking him not to issue yellow cards to families that fulfilled one of the nine conditions listed below: owning two hectares of land; possession of cell phone, colour television, or two wheelers or other vehicles; loan liability of more than Rs. 1 lakh with banks or societies; having LPG cylinders, two or more pumpsets or borewells; if any member of the family is a government or quasi-government employee, an income tax assessee, or a registered contractor or businessmen.

Concession

The Udupi Deputy Commissioner had written to the Government that most families in the district had LPG cylinders and television sets bought on an instalment basis.

Hence, these two conditions should be relaxed, he said.

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