Cannot revise BPL criteria: Gujarat government

February 03, 2014 09:39

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.

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