Bengaluru: Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has collected a whopping Rs. 13.5 crore fine from 4.6 lakh ineligible BPL card holders. Ironically, 21,232 such card holders are Government employees from whom alone Rs. 11.2 crore fine was collected.
The drive to weed out ineligible card holders began in Feb. 2022 and the data of such beneficiaries are being collected from various Departments including Transport Department on the basis of their Aadhaar number, as per the report of Additional Director (Vigilance and Public Distribution) Jnanendra Kumar.
