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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).
AN IRISH aid worker who died in an Ethiopian air crash which prompted the grounding of the entire fleet of Boeing 737-MAX aircraft has been posthumously honoured by the Irish Red Cross.
Micheál (Mick) Ryan (39), an engineer with the United Nations’ World Food Programme, was posthumously named the Humanitarian of the Year.
The Irish Red Cross also presented their Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr Mike Ryan from Sligo who has helped lead the global response to Covid-19 as executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
However, the awarding of a posthumous honour to engineer Mick Ryan, who died in an Ethiopian Airlines tragedy on March 10 2019, proved very emotional.
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