Overview
- The Delhi Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta approved the change, positioning the reforms as a fairness and transparency push in the Public Distribution System.
- An income certificate from the Revenue Department is now mandatory for applications, ending the earlier self-certification process.
- New ineligibility rules exclude households that own property in A–E category colonies, pay income tax, own a non-commercial four-wheeler, have a government employee in the family, or use electricity connections above 2 kW.
- The first-come, first-served method has been scrapped in favor of district-level committees led by DMs or ADMs with local MLAs, with a 20% waiting list to keep slots filled.
- A verification drive found 3,89,883 pending applications and more than 11,65,965 people awaiting coverage, as irregularities created over 8.27 lakh slots to be reassigned to eligible families.