The Tamil Nadu government has said that sugar family card holders can, on merit, convert to rice family cards. A copy of the card can be attached to the website www.tnpds.gov.in to apply by December 20. There are 5,80,298 family cards in the public distribution system that receive sugar. Most of these have demanded that their cards be converted into rice family cards.
Chief Minister Edappadi Palanisamy has accepted this. A copy of the card can be attached to the website www.tnpds.gov.in to apply by December 20 (Or) submit applications to the concerned Circular Distribution Officers and Assistant Commissioners. It has thus been suggested that many cards can be converted into rice family cards based on merit.
The relief amount provided by the Government of Tamil Nadu from time to time and the Pongal gift of Rs.1000 were not available to the sugar card holders. With just over a month to go before the Pongal festival, most people will get the government’s Pongal gift if they convert themselves to rice cardholders. With just a few months to go before the assembly elections, the government has announced that all cardholders can be converted to rice cardholders so that the Pongal prize money is available to all.