Kerala Government has launched the programme of providing 35 kilogram of food grains at two rupee per kg to half of the ration card holders of the state. <br/><br/>Thirty six lakh families will get the benefit of the programme that costs 500 crore rupees per year. <br/><br/>Apart from BPL families, farmers, labourers belonging to traditional sectors and those who have worked at least for fifty days under the Mahatmagandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme are to be benefitted. <br/><br/>Inaugurating the first ever programme of its kind at Neyyatinkara near Thiruvanathapuram Chief Minister V S Achuthanandhan said that despite a well established public distribution system in the state the Centre is reducing BPL and APL rice quota every year.