Karnataka’s first ‘rice ATM’ to soon come up in a Bengaluru slum
According to Karnataka Minister for Food and Civil Supplies K Gopalaiah, the Rice ATMs will be beneficial for BPL carholders, who don’t find time to go to the PDS centre during working hours. Updated: December 29, 2020 8:19:20 am
The machines, expected to check malpractices in the PDS, can dispense two commodities at a speed of 25 kg per 1.3 minutes. (Representational)
Karnataka’s first rice dispensing machine or ‘rice ATM’ will come up in one of the slum areas in Bengaluru in the next few months, state Minister for Food and Civil Supplies K Gopalaiah said. Announced in September, the initiative is part of the Centre’s pilot project ‘Annapurti’, that is being implemented in close partnership with the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP).