Karnataka’s Siddaramaiah government is going to give money to people in exchange of rice, know the reason?

Anna Bhagya Yojana: The Karnataka government is facing difficulties in procuring large quantities of rice to meet the election guarantee. Meanwhile, the Siddaramaiah government on Wednesday (June 28) decided to give money to the beneficiaries at the rate of Rs 34 per kg instead of additional five kg of rice under the Anna Bhagya scheme.

According to the news agency PTI, the state government said that the work of giving money to the people will start from July 1. Actually the Congress karnataka assembly election Before coming to power, she had promised in her manifesto that in addition to the five kilograms of rice being given free of cost by the Center, she would give an additional five kilograms of rice every month.

What is the problem in buying rice?
Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Minister KH Muniyappa said after a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday (June 28), “The standard rate of Food Corporation of India (FCI) is Rs 34 per kg of rice. We tried to buy rice, but no organization came forward to supply us the required quantity of food grains.

What did the Karnataka government say?
Minister H Muniyappa said that the date (July 1) to start Anna Bhagya Yojana has come and we had promised, so in the cabinet meeting CM Siddaramaiah, Deputy CM DK Shivakumar and other ministers reached the decision that till the rice If there is no supply, we will give money to BPL card holders at the rate of Rs 34 per kg, which is the rate of FCI. In this case, the beneficiaries of five forts will get Rs 170.

Siddaramaiah also talked to Amit Shah
CM Siddaramaiah recently raised the issue of rice during his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He told after the meeting that I told him (Amit Shah) that FCI had earlier said that it would supply rice, it also issued a letter regarding this, but later it refused.

Let us inform that out of 224 seats in Karnataka, Congress had won 135 seats. Whereas BJP was reduced to 66 and JDS to 19 seats.

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