The Scheme envisages supply of food grain @ 10 kg. per head per month free of cost to the people who are more than 65 years of age and not receiving any kind of old age pension from the Govt. The applicants must be "destitute" in the sense of having little or no regular means of subsistence from his/her own source of income or through financial support from family members or other sources. 72 Persons have been identified under the scheme.