Published by: World Tibet Network News, Sunday, Apr 21, 1996

LHASA (April 18) XINHUA - Danzim Zholma, 58, who lives alone, is no longer worried about buying grain for daily consumption, since she now has a card issued by the local government to buy low-price grain.

Many low-income families in the Tibet Autonomous Region are now benefiting from the new grain cards.

With the cards, each of primary students can buy 13 kilograms of low-price grain a month, college and polytechnic school students 17.5 kilograms and low-income urban residents 10 kilograms.

Card holders also include herdsmen, residents in remote areas, rural residents who need relief grain, and poor and retired workers.