Free ration to continue for June, says EPS

“TN is the only State to give free ration for three months,” Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said in a statement urging the public to keep social distancing. Palaniswami said cardholders are entitled to get a kg of tur dal and sugar besides a litre of edible oil through fair price shops and that these will be distributed from June 1 onwards. Accordingly, tokens will be distributed at doorsteps of the cardholders between May 29 and 31. The State announced to double the rice entitlement of all rice-drawing cardholders for the next three months, to mitigate the hardships due to lockdown.