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Cannot revise BPL criteria: Gujarat government
February 03, 2014
The Gujarat government today clarified that it had not issued any new guidelines for the identification of Below Poverty Line families, saying it could not take such a step unilaterally without involving the Centre.
Reacting to a media report which claimed that the Gujarat government had come up with new criteria for identification of BPL families, the state's Food and Civil Supplies Secretary R P Gupta said that they had merely reiterated the guidelines issued by the Centre in 2004.