During the current year the Government has made a provisional allocation of 689.40 lakh tons of foodgrains which includes 483.84 lakh tons under normal Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS); 66.45 lakh tons additional allocation for Above Poverty Line (APL) and Below Poverty Line (BPL) families; 9.18 lakh tons for festivals, natural calamity, additional TPDS requirement; 29.94 lakh tons under Other Welfare Schemes (OWS) and 100 lakh tons under Open Market Sale Scheme (Domestic). The provisional foodgrain allocation made during the current year is higher than the allocation of 670.97 lakh tons made under the same schemes during the last year. This information was given by the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri Raosaheb Patil Danve in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today (08.08.2014).
He said that in order to strengthen the procurement mechanism, Government has been taking various initiatives such as increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP), declaring bonus over and above MSP, payment to farmers through account payee cheque/electronic mode, opening of procurement centres at potential areas for procurement.
For strengthening availability of covered storage capacities, Government of India is implementing the Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee (PEG) Scheme, wherein storage capacity is created by private parties, Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), States Warehousing Corporations (SWCs), and other State Agencies for guaranteed hiring by Food Corporation of India. Out of the approved capacity of 203.76 lakh MT under the Scheme, a capacity of 120.30 lakh MT has been completed as on 30.6.2014. Godowns of the capacity of 27070 MT have been completed so far under a Plan Scheme during the 12th Five Year Plan. Further, a storage capacity of 20 lakh MT is planned in the form of modern silos through Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, under the overall target for the PEG Scheme.
For ensuring proper distribution, Government is urging the States/UTs to implement measures such as doorstep delivery of foodgrains, correct identification of beneficiaries, improving offtake of foodgrains, monitoring, vigilance and viability of Fair Price Shop (FPS) Operations. With a view to modernize the system, the Government has initiated a Plan Scheme on End-to-end computerization of TPDS Operations on cost sharing basis with States/UTs which would facilitate digitization of ration cards/beneficiary and other data bases, computerization of supply chain management, setting up of transparency portals and grievance redressal mechanisms.
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He said that in order to strengthen the procurement mechanism, Government has been taking various initiatives such as increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP), declaring bonus over and above MSP, payment to farmers through account payee cheque/electronic mode, opening of procurement centres at potential areas for procurement.
For strengthening availability of covered storage capacities, Government of India is implementing the Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee (PEG) Scheme, wherein storage capacity is created by private parties, Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), States Warehousing Corporations (SWCs), and other State Agencies for guaranteed hiring by Food Corporation of India. Out of the approved capacity of 203.76 lakh MT under the Scheme, a capacity of 120.30 lakh MT has been completed as on 30.6.2014. Godowns of the capacity of 27070 MT have been completed so far under a Plan Scheme during the 12th Five Year Plan. Further, a storage capacity of 20 lakh MT is planned in the form of modern silos through Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, under the overall target for the PEG Scheme.
For ensuring proper distribution, Government is urging the States/UTs to implement measures such as doorstep delivery of foodgrains, correct identification of beneficiaries, improving offtake of foodgrains, monitoring, vigilance and viability of Fair Price Shop (FPS) Operations. With a view to modernize the system, the Government has initiated a Plan Scheme on End-to-end computerization of TPDS Operations on cost sharing basis with States/UTs which would facilitate digitization of ration cards/beneficiary and other data bases, computerization of supply chain management, setting up of transparency portals and grievance redressal mechanisms.
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