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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre asks state to build storage capacity before launching food security scheme -Dipak K Dash

Centre asks state to build storage capacity before launching food security scheme -Dipak K Dash

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published Published on Oct 2, 2014   modified Modified on Oct 2, 2014
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The central government is not in a hurry to push states to implement Food Security Act (FSA) without first building adequate capacity. The food ministry has even sought details of the preparedness in states where the act is in force.

Sources said that only two more states - Assam and Uttarakhand - have informed the ministry about their readiness to launch the scheme. So far 11 states have either implemented the scheme completely or partially. With the extended deadline for implementation of the act ending on October 4, the ministry is set to extend it further.

"Our focus is not just to see that every state launches the food security scheme for record even when it is not ready and has not done enough to ensure the successful implementation of such a major scheme. It has no meaning if states are unable to store, transport and distribute the grain that we are sanctioning under this scheme," said a food ministry official.

The ministry has circulated a revised proforma seeking detailed response from all states including on issues such as whether the governments have identified the beneficiary households as per the guideline and whether the list of such persons has been put out in the public domain.

Some of the other queries are whether states are making doorstep delivery of foodgrains and whether they have created sufficient and scientific storage capacity at different levels. The ministry has also sought response on steps that have been taken to set up an internal grievance redressal mechanism including call centres, help lines and designation of nodal officers.

Among the states that have implemented the FSA are Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Bihar, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka.


The Times of India, 1 October, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-asks-state-to-build-storage-capacity-before-launching-food-security-scheme/articleshow/43944878.cms


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