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Paint 'I Am Poor' on Your Walls, Rajasthan Government Tells BPL Families

-TheWire.in

Unable to fix its public distribution system, the state government humiliates the poor by marking their houses.

New Delhi:
From being in denial over violence in her state to allegedly ‘using an army of paid trolls’ to defend herself on Twitter, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in the past few weeks. This latest news from Dausa district will not exactly help Raje’s image in the state, which goes to polls next year.

According to local news reports, below poverty line (BPL) families receiving subsidised food grains were asked by the local authorities to paint “I am poor” on the walls outside their homes. These humiliating markings can be seen outside over 50,000 dwellings in Sikrai and Bandikui tehsils, reports  Dainik Bhaskar.

In some cases, the sign was reportedly painted multiple times outside the same household. The idea behind this bizarre exercise is to stop the alleged misuse of the government scheme by “relatively well-to-do” families.

The BPL category primarily includes communities which are socially and economically backward – Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and minorities.

“We have to suffer this humiliation for 10 kg of wheat. It has become difficult to hold our head high,” a villager told the Hindustan Times (HT). Many embarrassed villagers have reportedly removed the signs and are not availing the benefits anymore. There have also been reports of the government offering a cash incentive of Rs 750 for the poor to ‘brand’ themselves:

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