AP to relaunch Rs 2 per kg rice scheme
About 1.87 crore below poverty line families, holding white ration cards in Andhra Pradesh would start getting rice at Rs 2 per kg within a week. The State Cabinet, which met here on Thursday put its stamp of approval on the welfare scheme which will put an over all burden of about Rs 3,000 crore per annum on the exchequer. The scheme was abandoned by the then Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in 1996.