Ration card holders to get Rs 100, 1kg rice and sugar as Pongal gift
Posted on: 03/Jan/2014 12:41:37 PM
On Tuesday, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa announced that Rs 100 in cash and 1kg each of rice and sugar would be distributed to 18.4-million ration card holders in the state to help them celebrate Pongal, the harvest festival.
In a statement issued by the state government, Jayalalithaa said: "A special Pongal pack containing one kilo of raw rice worth Rs 20, one kilo of sugar worth Rs 40 and a cash of Rs 100 will be given to 18.4 million ration card holders."
She said the distribution of gifts would start before Pongal festival.
The statement said it
would cost the government Rs 281crore.
