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AIDWA volunteers stage protest

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Poor families run from pillar to post

Pondicherry: Volunteers of the Pondicherry unit of all India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) held a demonstration at the end of a rally at the Directorate of Civil Supplies and Consumer Welfare here on Tuesday in support of their demands.

The deputy Secretary of the Tamilnadu unit of the AIDWA S.Valantina led the stir. A release from the chairperson of the AIDWA here K. Shanthi and its Secretary K.Mahalakshmi said that the Administration was unnecessarily making the families coming under the category of the "Below Poverty Line" category run from pillar to post in getting the red colour cards. They also alleged that although the poor families were entitled to get red colour cards they were issued yellow colour cards applicable for the affluent or above poverty line category of people.

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