NEW DELHI: From January 2023, over half a dozen states received’t must pay further from their coffers to make subsidised foodgrain underneath NFSA accessible to the poor at a minimal worth or at no cost.
There will even be no room for them to take the credit score of the scheme, which has to date been primarily funded by the Centre, as the federal government has introduced to bear your entire price of the foodgrain and supply them at no cost to over 81 crore poor.
At the moment, states together with Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Kerala, Telangana and Rajasthan distribute the foodgrain allotted underneath the Nationwide Meals Safety Act (NFSA) at an extra subsidised charge or at no cost. For instance, Andhra Pradesh bears Rs 2 per kg for rice equipped by the Centre and makes it accessible to the ration card holders for Re 1 per kg. Equally, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana governments have been making rice accessible on the identical worth by paying an additional Rs 2 subsidy per kilo from its price range. The present challenge worth of rice from the central authorities is Rs 3 per kg. Within the case of Tamil Nadu, the state authorities has been following the common Public Distribution System (PDS) the place rice is supplied freed from price to 2.2 crore PDS cardholders each month. Kerala will get the rice at Rs 3 per kg from the Centre underneath NFSA and distributes it freed from price for the beneficiaries of Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) scheme, who’re the poorest of the poor. For precedence class or BPL households, the state authorities bears extra subsidy of Re 1 and the rice is made accessible at Rs 2 per kg.
In Rajasthan, beneficiaries underneath the AAY class, pay solely Re 1 for every kilo of wheat because the state authorities bears extra subsidy of Re 1. The Centre makes wheat accessible to states at Rs 2 per kg underneath the NFSA. The BJP dominated Assam is at the moment paying Rs 3 per kg for foodgrains underneath NFSA to make them accessible at freed from price for greater than two crore folks.
The states taking credit score for the foodgrain supplied underneath NFSA to the poor has been a matter of debate for the previous few years. Former Union meals and client affairs Ram Vilas Paswan had flagged the difficulty and had stated that many states had been taking subsidised foodgrain and passing them on to finish customers as their very own with out giving any credit score to the Centre. He had stated, “These states spend about Rs 10,000 crore from their pocket and go it to finish customers as their very own. That is fallacious on their half. They need to give due credit score to the central authorities.”
Just lately, the ration retailers or honest worth retailers had been directed to place out info of how the NFSA is a central scheme.
There will even be no room for them to take the credit score of the scheme, which has to date been primarily funded by the Centre, as the federal government has introduced to bear your entire price of the foodgrain and supply them at no cost to over 81 crore poor.
At the moment, states together with Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Kerala, Telangana and Rajasthan distribute the foodgrain allotted underneath the Nationwide Meals Safety Act (NFSA) at an extra subsidised charge or at no cost. For instance, Andhra Pradesh bears Rs 2 per kg for rice equipped by the Centre and makes it accessible to the ration card holders for Re 1 per kg. Equally, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana governments have been making rice accessible on the identical worth by paying an additional Rs 2 subsidy per kilo from its price range. The present challenge worth of rice from the central authorities is Rs 3 per kg. Within the case of Tamil Nadu, the state authorities has been following the common Public Distribution System (PDS) the place rice is supplied freed from price to 2.2 crore PDS cardholders each month. Kerala will get the rice at Rs 3 per kg from the Centre underneath NFSA and distributes it freed from price for the beneficiaries of Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) scheme, who’re the poorest of the poor. For precedence class or BPL households, the state authorities bears extra subsidy of Re 1 and the rice is made accessible at Rs 2 per kg.
In Rajasthan, beneficiaries underneath the AAY class, pay solely Re 1 for every kilo of wheat because the state authorities bears extra subsidy of Re 1. The Centre makes wheat accessible to states at Rs 2 per kg underneath the NFSA. The BJP dominated Assam is at the moment paying Rs 3 per kg for foodgrains underneath NFSA to make them accessible at freed from price for greater than two crore folks.
The states taking credit score for the foodgrain supplied underneath NFSA to the poor has been a matter of debate for the previous few years. Former Union meals and client affairs Ram Vilas Paswan had flagged the difficulty and had stated that many states had been taking subsidised foodgrain and passing them on to finish customers as their very own with out giving any credit score to the Centre. He had stated, “These states spend about Rs 10,000 crore from their pocket and go it to finish customers as their very own. That is fallacious on their half. They need to give due credit score to the central authorities.”
Just lately, the ration retailers or honest worth retailers had been directed to place out info of how the NFSA is a central scheme.
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