Elderly must get supplies in last week of every month: Min Nadendla Manohar
Vijayawada: Civil supplies minister Nadendla Manohar directed the civil supplies department officials to take steps to distribute essential commodities to elderly people aged above 65 years and differently-abled BPL cardholders at their doorsteps between 25th and 30th of every month.
This distribution should occur before the start of essential commodities distribution under the PDS system for the ensuing month in the state.
He asked the ration dealers to take the initiative to door deliver essential commodities to the elderly and differently-abled beneficiaries living in agency, tribal, and hilly regions.
On Friday, Manohar held a meeting with the ration dealers' representatives at the Civil Supplies Bhavan in Vijayawada. Addressing the ration dealers on the occasion, the civil supplies minister said that it was a record of sorts that govt achieved 89.6% essential commodities distribution within 15 days of the commencement of the PDS distribution on June 1 in the state. He said that the essential commodities were distributed to a total of 1.3 crore cardholders out of 1.5 crore cardholders in the state.
Manohar further pointed out that govt successfully door delivered the essential commodities to 13.1 lakh elderly and differently-abled cardholders, achieving an 83% delivery rate in the first 15 days of the month.
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