Puducherry Dec 21 PTI Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Tuesday kickstarted his governments scheme to distribute through bank accounts rain relief to families falling under the APL Above Poverty Line and BPL Below Poverty Line category hereA release from office of the Chief Minister said while each of the 185000 BPL families holding red colour family cards would be paid Rs 5000 by the Directorate of Civil Supplies each of 142000 APL families holding yellow colour cards would be paid Rs 4500The territorial government spends Rs 156 crores on account of payment of the rain relief to mitigate the sufferings of the families caused by the torrential rains recently in the Union TerritoryHowever the government staff are not eligible to get the relief the release said PTI COR ROH ROH
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