TARGETED PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
- Government of India makes allocation of foodgrains
under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) for Below Poverty Line
(BPL) families and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY)
families @ 35 kg per family per month.
- Beneficiaries for the scheme are identified by the
States on the basis of 1993-94 poverty estimates of Planning Commission
and March 2000 population estimates of Registrar General of
India.
OTHER
WELFARE SCHEMES
The
Department of Food & PD also makes allocation of food grains at BPL prices
for the following welfare schemes implemented by various Ministries/Departments
of the Government of India as well as State Governments/UTs:
MID
DAY MEAL SCHEME
- The Mid Day Meal Scheme is implemented by the Ministry
of Human Resource Development.
- The Scheme covers students of Primary & Upper
Primary Classes in the Government Schools/Schools aided by Government and
the Schools run by local bodies.
- Food grains are supplied free of cost @ 100
gram per child per school day where cooked/processed hot meal is
being served or 3 kgs per
student per month where foodgrains are distributed in raw form.
WHEAT
BASED NUTRITION PROGRAMME
- This Scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Women
& Child Development.
- The food grains allotted under this Scheme are utilized
by the States/UTs under Integrated
Child Development Services (ICDS) for providing nutritious/energy food
to children in the age group of 0-6
years and expectant/lactating women.
RAJIV
GANDHI SCHEME FOR EMPOWERMENT OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS ‘SABLA’
- The Ministry of Women and
Child Development administers the scheme at the central level and State/UT
Governments implement the scheme.
- The SABLA Scheme has been launched on 19.11.2010 by
merging two schemes namely Nutrition
Programme and Adolescent Girls (NPAG) and Kishori Shakti Yojana(KSY)
in to a single scheme and proposed to be implemented in 200 selected
districts across the country.
- The Scheme aims at empowering adolescent girls of 11-18 years by improvement of
their nutritional and health status
and upgrading various skills like home skills, life skills and vocational
skills.
- It also aims at equipping the girls on family welfare,
health hygiene etc. and information and guidance on existing public
services along with aiming to mainstream out of school girls into formal
or non-formal education.
- The requirement of food grains under the scheme for
nutrition is @ 100 grams of grains
per beneficiary per day for 300 days in a year.
SUPPLY
OF FOODGRAINS TO HOSTELS/WELFARE INSTITUTIONS
- This Scheme is implemented by the Department of Food
and Public Distribution through the State Governments/UTs.
- To meet the requirement of Hostels/Welfare
Institutions, viz., N.G.Os/Charitable Institutions, an additional
allocation of foodgrains up to 5% of the BPL allocation of each State/UT
is made to States/UTs at BPL rates under this Scheme.
SUPPLY
OF FOODGRAINS FOR SC/ST/OBC HOSTELS
- This Scheme is implemented by the Department of
Food and Public Distribution through the State Governments/UTs.
- Under this Scheme, all residents of the hostels having
2/3rd students belonging to SC/ST/OBC are given 15
kg. foodgrains per resident per month .
ANNAPURNA
SCHEME
- This Scheme is implemented by Ministry of Rural
Development. Indigent senior citizens of 65 years of age or above who, though eligible for old age pension
under the National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS) but are not getting
the same, are covered under this Scheme and 10 kgs. of foodgrains
per person per month are supplied free of cost.
EMERGNCY
FEEDING PROGRAMME
- This Scheme is implemented by Department of Food and
Public Distribution through the State Government of Orissa.
- The Scheme is being implemented in
eight KBK Districts of Orissa covering 2 lakh beneficiaries
and foodgrains (rice) at BPL rates are being allocated to State
Government of Orissa.
- Cooked food containing, inter alia, rice-200 gms, dal (pulse)-40 gms and
vegetables-30 gms is provided daily in the diet of each EFP
beneficiary by the State Government.
VILLAGE
GRAIN BANKS SCHEME
- Village Grain Bank Scheme was earlier implemented by
the Ministry of Tribal Affairs in 11 States.
- However, since 24.11.2004, the scheme is being
implemented by the Department Food & Public Distribution.
The
main objective of the scheme presently being implemented is to provide
safeguard against starvation during the period of natural calamity or during
lean season when the marginalized food insecure households do not have
sufficient resources to purchase rations. Such people in need of
food grains will be able to borrow food grains from the Village Grain Bank. The
grain banks are to be set up in food scarce areas like the drought prone areas,
the hot and cold desert areas, tribal areas and the inaccessible hilly areas
which remain cut off because of natural calamities like floods, etc. These
villages are to be notified by the concerned State Government/Union Territory. The
scheme envisages inclusion of all willing BPL/AAY families in the villages to
be identified by the State Government in food deficit areas.
The quantity to be lent and the period of repayment is to be decided
by the Group themselves. Village Panchayat/Gram Sabha,
Self Help Group for NGOs etc. identified by the State Governments are eligible
for running the Grain Banks.