Another chance to correct mistakes in voters list

citizens will have a final chance to correct any mistakes or put in any missing name in the voters list before NMC election slated on February 16. NMC will publish the draft ward-wise voters list on January 12. It will accept applications for correction till January 17.After receiving the assembly constituency-wise voters list from district administration, NMC has prepared ward-wise list. Chances of...

New survey for BPL list to be over by January

new socio-economic survey to prepare the below poverty line (BPL) list of families will be completed by January 2012, the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) told parliament...

Orissa to implement new BPL list in March 2012

socio-economic and caste census for the preparation of the new BPL list for Orissa will commence from September 15....

Bengal to send revised BPL list for central approval

West Bengal will send a revised list of people living below poverty line (BPL) by the end of June to the central government for approval, state Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee said...

BJD MLA, family are below poverty line beneficiaries

(BPL) beneficiary. Soren's wife and his two daughters are also among the beneficiaries, enlisted in the ward-2 under Udala NAC, information obtained through an RTI application revealed.benefits after 1997 BPL survey. He became MLA in 2009. As per the RTI information, Soren is found enlisted in the fresh list too (verification list of BPL card holders) prepared for 2010-2011, two years after he became...

Jairam backs Nitish BPL plan

Jairam Ramesh today backed Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s proposal that an independent commission should conduct BPL surveys, a day after the Union minister criticised the Planning Commission’s controversial poverty definition.“I support the demand of the Bihar chief minister. If the BPL survey is done by an independent commission, it will check interference by the government or any political...

Tripura government to cleanse BPL list of employee names

AGARTALA: The Tripura government has embarked on an project for cleansing of the state's BPL list by removing the names of unscrupulous employees. There were reports that while many government employees have enlisted themselves in the BPL category, many previous BPL card-holders did not relinquish their status even after getting a government job.A government official here said an all-out campaign was...

​Govt to cancel Udala legislator’s BPL card

state government said on Wednesday it will cancel the BPL card issued in the name of BJD's Udala legislator"We would definitely cancel the card and fix responsibility," food supplies and consumer welfare minister P K Deb said, reacting to the TOI story on Soren being a BPL beneficiary.Soren, who has been enlisted under the BPL list in ward-2 under Udala notified area council, denied taking any benefit...

Odisha MLA listed as BPL beneficiary, drives an SUV

BHUBANESWAR: He zips around in a Toyota Fortuner but is listed as a below poverty line (BPL) beneficiary. Biju Janata Dal MLA, from Udala in Mayurbhanj district, who declared his assets in 2009 that in no way qualify him for such benefits, nevertheless has his wife and two kids as well listed under BPL.The information was obtained through an RTI application. Soren, a first-term MLA, wasaccording to...

Film stars, NRIs in Kerala’s BPL list

Kerala's list of below poverty line (BPL) households includes some film stars and non-resident Indians (NRIs), a minister said Tuesday, adding that the "mistake" will be corrected."I do not want to name the film stars, but the truth has been found out that they, along with some NRIs, figure in the BPL list. We are soon going to rectify this," the state's Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Shibhu...