About 1.87 crore below poverty line families, holding white ration cards in Andhra Pradesh would start getting rice at Rs 2 per kg within a week. The State Cabinet, which met here on Thursday put its stamp of approval on the welfare scheme which will put an over all burden of about Rs 3,000 crore per annum on the exchequer. The scheme was abandoned by the then Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in 1996. The Minister for Information A Ramanarayana Reddy told the media that the rice scheme will be formally launched by the Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy on April 9. The Rs 2 per kg rice, against the market price of Rs 15 per kg would be supplied by the Government through the public distribution system shops. He said that more than 80 per cent population of the State will be covered by this pro-poor scheme.