CHENNAI: Ration shop staff across Tamil Nadu are expressing growing frustration over what they describe as severely inadequate financial support for implementing the doorstep delivery component of the 'Thayumanavar Scheme', intended to assist elderly and differently-abled beneficiaries.

The Cooperative Department's allocation for distribution expenses, they say, falls far short of actual costs, forcing workers to personally bear the burden required to keep the system functioning.

Under the current norms, the department provides Rs 36 per ration card in urban areas, Rs 40 in rural areas, and Rs 100 in hill regions.

However, supervisors pointed out that these allocations do not match the expenditure involved in delivering essential commodities to beneficiaries' homes.

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