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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Food security? 15 lakh people of Gujarat's 10 backward districts 'taken off' subsidy list -Pankti Jog

Food security? 15 lakh people of Gujarat's 10 backward districts 'taken off' subsidy list -Pankti Jog

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published Published on Oct 27, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 1, 2020

-Counterview.net

If a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act is to be believed, a whopping 3.96 lakh ration cards have been deleted from the National Food Security Act (NFSA) benefit in Gujarat. This comes to over 15 lakh people, all of them belonging to tribal and backwards areas. They have been thrown out of the subsided ration cover despite the current Covid situation.

As per NFSA, passed in 2013 in Parliament, 75% of the rural population and 50% of the urban population can be covered for subsidized ration for which entire expenses are too be given by the Central government.

Every person in the identified household are entitled to get 5 kg of ration, 3.5 kg of wheat at the rate of Rs.2/kg and 1.5 kg of rice at the rate of Rs.3/kg. As NFSA is connecting right to food with right to life, which is a fundamental right, it also covers food security provisions for infants, children, students in schools under mid-day meal school and out-of-school adolescent age girls, along with the public distribution system.

In Gujarat, NFSA implementation began on April 1, 2016, and 3.41 crore people have been identified for subsidized ration (per person 5 kg) along with 8 lakh most poor (Antyodaya) families (42 lakh people), to whom 35 kg of ration is given per month per family. Thus 3.82 crore people are being covered under NFSA with the support of the Government of India. No separate state budget is available for subsidized ration.

Recently, the RTI helpline run by the Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP) started getting frequent calls about names of the families being deleted from the priority household list. As deletion was also noticed from tribal and poor blocks, MAGP decided to file an RTI plea to get the exact number of people/ration cards that were deleted since 2016.

To our surprise, the statistics of 38 blocks, which are currently available with us, show that more than 3.96 lakh cards have been removed from the “priority household” lists, thereby excluding them from the subsidized ration support. These are from 10 districts, which included backward ones, Dang, Navsari, Tapi, Sabarkantha, Banaskantha and Dahod, from where people had complained about the same at block and district levels.

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Counterview.net, 27 October, 2020, https://www.counterview.net/2020/10/food-security-15-lakh-people-of.html?fbclid=IwAR00dRec3WtZIJAALUtqZnzzBc9ko_2BWop8TuzXZ-kCpBmunM1U6KRbSak


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