A couple show their BPL cards at Kharkhura in Gaya on Friday. Picture by Suman

Gaya, July 15: Three years have passed since the mistakes were found in the list of below poverty line (BPL) and above poverty line (APL) families but the corrections have still not been carried out.

The corrections in the family survey list aimed at including the names of families left out from the list and to strike out the names that were incorrectly included.

The district administration prepared the family survey list in 2007 after the state urban development and housing department issued the order for the same.

In 2007, students of Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Gaya, prepared a family survey list. They were paid Rs 10 for filling up each form comprising the details of a particular family.

According to the first phase survey conducted in 2007, there are around 55,700 APL, 23,298 BPL and 6,600 extremely (financially) backward families in 53 wards under Gaya Municipal Corporation (GMC).

“Several APL families did not get their names included in the list on the confusion that it was a survey of BPL families only,” Laljee Prasad, a GMC ward councillor told The Telegraph.

Prasad said several families sent applications after they realised that it was not a survey only for BPL families. “As there were a large number of families who sent in such applications, the state urban development and housing department took a serious note of the matter and issued an order to invite applications from such families,” he said.

Collection of such applications started around two years ago and fresh applications are still being entertained. According to the latest order of urban development and housing department, the family is supposed to attach a group photograph with all family members along with the application. The ration card issued would bear the group photograph.

Even the work of taking the photographs is going on at a snail’s pace. A tender was issued to ensure that photographs of all families from the 53 wards of GMC, which were left out in the earlier survey, are included this time.

The counter for making the ration card has also not been opened here. Recently, the food and civil supplies department passed an order that fresh ration cards of families would be prepared by opening a counter in each district headquarter.

Pointing out at another irregularity, Prasad said a large number of names have been removed from the list prepared earlier, but foodgrains are still being provided against their names.

Yellow card is issued to the families belonging to extremely (financially) backward classes. A yellow card holder gets 35kg of foodgrains, including 14kg wheat at Rs 2 per kg and 21kg rice at Rs 3 per kg.

Red cards are issued to BPL families. A red card holder gets 25kg foodgrains, including 10kg wheat and 15kg rice at a subsidised rate. APL families get blue cards against which only kerosene is provided.