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BPL List- Landless farmers allege bias

For the past four years, Badrinath, a landless farmer of Nalai village, has been moving for pillar to post to get his name included in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) list, but to no avail. With nine members of his family on the verge of starvation, he approached the authorities concerned to issue him a BPL card, but the officials expressed their helplessness in doing so.