Congress legislators are urging Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to reinstate BPL cards removed during a recent government drive. Many eligible ...

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah found that some genuinely poor people lost their BPL cards due to misunderstandings around income tax filings f...

Veteran Congressman is arriving in Goa to chair coordination committee meeting of local party unit which will discuss the crucial issue of ...

Raje also gave direction against district supply officer Gautam Chand Jain and enforcement officer Ravi Jadhav in allotment of a PDS shop.

"IAY waitlist was faulty as a many eligible beneficiaries were left out as highlighted in the National level monitor's report."

BJD MLA Srinath Soren, from Udala in Mayurbhanj district, who declared his assets in 2009, has his wife and two kids as well listed under B...

The panel has suggested that the government should use three-stage approach -- automatic exclusion, automatic inclusion and scoring index -...

At present, financial assistance of Rs 45,000 is given per family under IAY in the plains, and Rs 48,500 in hilly for constructing dwelling...

"I once again demand that an independent institution be set up on the pattern of Election Commission of India for preparing the BPL lists,"...

Jairam Ramesh said a fresh list of people living below poverty line would be made available only after the tabling and study of the report.

This time, the search for the poor will save both time and paper.

Govt to set eligibility criteria for automatic inclusion & exclusion of names from list.

The Planning Commission is expected to submit its estimate on the number of below the poverty line (BPL) families within 10 days to the gov...

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee plans to release a list of people living below poverty line (BPL) by end of this year.

The fresh exercise would be conducted jointly by a joint team of the state departments of rural development, revenue, food and civil suppli...

A Parliamentary Standing Committee has said that it was "perturbed" to note the under utilisation of funds in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajast...

Kerala government on Wednesday unveiled yet another populist scheme by offering 25 kilograms of rice at a price of Rs three per kg to all b...