Pics: Spoorthi Ullal
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, May 20: It is a common to come across senior citizens standing in long queues in front of the fair price shops in their jurisdiction. The families normally send elders to the ration shops as youngsters are normally busy with their studies and the adults work elsewhere.
Many a time, it takes long for the shop to dispense the grains because of the problems with biometric matching. In the coastal belt of Karnataka in particular the heat and sweat become unbearable and even the young people find it hard to stand for long in queues as it hurts their knee joints.
In a welcome change, a fair price shop in Mannagudda in the city has arranged for about a hundred chairs for the persons in the queue to take rest till their turn comes. This has spared the people for the ordeal of standing for hours to collect their rations. One hopes that more ration shops will follow suit.