(1) The Government shall identify the households to be covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana in accordance with the guidelines applicable to the said scheme for the purpose of clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 10 of the Act.
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(2) The guidelines for the households other than those covered under sub-rule (1) as priority households to be covered under the Targeted Public Distribution System shall be as follows:—
(a) Households without shelter.
(b) Households with Destitute who is living on alms.
(c) Households belonging to Primitive Vulnerable Tribal Groups.
(d) Households having a Widow pension holder under the Central or the State Government or under any other scheme under the said Governments if not otherwise ineligible as per the exclusion criteria as provided in sub-rule (3).
(e) Individuals having disability of 40% or more.
(f) Transgender applicants.
(3) Save as otherwise provided in sub-rule (2), all other households shall be priority households to be covered under the Targeted Public Distribution System except having any one of the following criteria, namely:—
(i) Households having a member who owns a Four Wheeler vehicle or a Heavy Vehicle or two or more motorized three wheelers or two or more Motor Boats or a Trawler.
(ii) Households having a member who owns mechanized agricultural equipment such as Tractors and Harvesters.
(iii) Households having a member working as a regular employee of the Central or the State Government, Public Sector Undertaking, Government aided Autonomous bodies and Local bodies (Incentive and honorarium based workers would not be considered under this criterion). Household having a member working in private sector with monthly salary of more than rupees ten thousand in rural areas and rupees fifteen thousand in urban areas.
(iv) Households having a member who owns an Enterprise (other than micro-enterprises) registered with the Government for manufacturing and services.
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(v) Households having a member earning more than rupees ten thousand per month in the rural and rupees fifteen thousand per month in urban areas.
(vi) Households having a member paying Income Tax or Professional Tax.
(vii) Households having domestic electric connection with a load of 2 KW or more andor consuming an average of 300 units of energy (KWH) per month.
(viii) Households having a member drawing a monthly pension of more than rupees ten thousand per month in rural areas and rupees fifteen thousand per month in urban areas.
(ix) Households who own three or more rooms with Pucca walls and Pucca roof not constructed under the Indira AwasYojana or Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana.
Provided that the rooms constructed under the Indira Awas Yojana or Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana shall not be covered under this exclusion criteria.
(4) The Government shall finalise the process and procedure for seeking application from eligible households for ration cards.
(5) The Government shall widely publicise the process for the information of public and set up help desk at Block, Municipality and Municipal Corporation level.
(6) The authority designated by the Government shall issue ration cards after receipt of application and their checks and verification in a time bound manner as shall be notified by the Government.
(7) The process of identification of eligible households shall be a continuous process to include eligible households and to remove ineligible households from the beneficiary database.
(8) Any person or organization or Government authority who has reasonable cause to believe that any person or household or a group of persons or group of households who deserves to have been included in the priority or Antyodaya Anna Yojana category and their names but have not been included in the list relevant to that category; or any person 5 or household or a group of persons or group of households who not being deserved have been included in the priority or Antyodaya Anna Yojana category and their names have been included in the list relevant to that category; may file a complaint to a Competent Authority, as notified by the Government, for inclusion or exclusion, as the case may be, of names of such person or household.