Overview
- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced a Delhi Cabinet decision raising eligibility from ₹1 lakh to ₹1.20 lakh to widen food-security coverage.
- Applications must now include an income certificate issued by the Revenue Department, replacing self-certification.
- The first-come, first-served method is discontinued, with district-level committees led by DMs/ADMs and including local MLAs prioritising cases and maintaining a 20% waiting list.
- Updated exclusion rules bar households owning property in A–E colonies, paying income tax, owning a private four-wheeler (except one commercial vehicle for livelihood), having a government employee in the family, or using electricity connections over 2 kW.
- The data review found about 6.46 lakh income mismatches, 95,682 inactive beneficiaries, 23,394 duplicates, 6,185 deceased beneficiaries and 56,372 opt-outs, leaving more than 8.27 lakh slots and a backlog of over 3.89 lakh applications with over 11.65 lakh people awaiting coverage.