Bengaluru: In an alteration to the Anna Bhagya scheme — one of the five flagship guarantees of the ruling Congress government — the Cabinet decided on Thursday to provide 5kg rice and an Indira kit (1 kg green gram, 1 kg toor dal, 1 kg sugar, 1 kg salt and 1 kg cooking oil) to BPL cardholders.

Addressing a news conference after the Cabinet meeting, Food and Civil Supplies Minister K H Muniyappa said: “We have been giving 10 kg rice. But later, we did a survey, where we found that 10 kg rice was being misused a bit. After that, we conducted a survey, where 90% of the customers preferred dal, sugar, cooking oil, sugar and salt. We discussed this with the CM, who agreed.”

Currently, the Union government is providing 5 kg rice, while the state government is providing another 5 kg rice.

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