From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, Oct 20: Applications for issuing fresh below-the-poverty line (BPL) and above-the-poverty line (APL) family ration cards would be received from November.

This information was given by Karnataka’s Food and Civil Supplies Minister D N Jeevaraj in Bangalore on Friday.

Speaking to reporters, he said that measures would be initiated to issue both types of BPL or APL, whichever is applicable to all those, who have been issued biometric cards by November 15.

The minister said `point of sale’ machines were being installed at 800 fair price depots in Tumkur district initially and 5,000 more would be provided to shops in five districts in three months.

There were 20,499 shops in the State and all of them would get these machines as and when the companies supply them, he said.

The details of card holders in the biometric cards recorded in the machine when he/she takes food grains would be passed to the central server.

Whenever the shops draw foodgrains from the godowns, it will also be recorded in the machine and the details could be tracked online, he added.