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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Migrants to Miss Out on Food Act Survey

Migrants to Miss Out on Food Act Survey

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published Published on Feb 19, 2015   modified Modified on Feb 19, 2015
-The New Indian Express

 

BALANGIR: The ongoing socio-economic survey to prepare the beneficiary list for the National Food Security Act (NFSA) is scheduled to be completed next month. The process, though, is going to leave out lakhs of migrants from Western Odisha districts, Balangir in particular, who will not be able to enrol themselves.

This is because the seasonal migration cycle, which begins from September to June will deny the migrants a chance to participate in the household survey. Every year after Nuakhai, people migrate in search of work and return only in June to cultivate their marginal rain-fed land holdings before migrating again.

The survey that was started in Balangir on January 28, will be completed by March 31. The Odisha Government would implement the Act in the entire State in a phased manner by July 2015. Earlier, Chief Secretary GC Pati had asked Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department officials to take the help of information technology (IT) for quick identification of the beneficiaries to ensure that needy people are not deprived of the facility.

The scheme envisages uniform entitlement of five kg foodgrains per person per month for ‘Priority' households. Existing Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households will get 35 kg of rice per household per month as before. Pregnant women and lactating mothers, besides being entitled to nutritious meals as per the prescribed nutritional norms, will also receive maternity benefit of at least `6,000.

A local activist, Pradeep Mohapatra said the survey would hold no meaning as lakhs of people from Bangomunda, Tureikela, Muribahal, Patnagarh, Titlagarh and Khaprakhol blocks of the district have already migrated to other States. These are mostly landless and marginal farmers who are forced to migrate in the absence of irrigation facilities.

He further said that while it is vital for the Government to include the most vulnerable and eliminate the undeserving families in the survey, exclusion of migrant families in the process will be of immense concern.

Balangir Collector M Muthukumar said in order to identify such migrant families, a special drive will be conducted in June or July.


The New Indian Express, 18 February, 2015, http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/Migrants-to-Miss-Out-on-Food-Act-Survey/2015/02/18/article2674456.ece


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