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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Supreme Court seeks Centre’s response on Chhattisgarh PDS model

Supreme Court seeks Centre’s response on Chhattisgarh PDS model

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published Published on Mar 5, 2013   modified Modified on Mar 5, 2013
-The Times of India

Finance minister P Chidambaram may have brushed aside the Gujarat model of development but the Centre will now have to comment on the efficacy of the model set up by BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh in implementing targeted public distribution system providing subsidized food grains to the poor.

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's comment on the Raman Singh government's model of TPDS implementation, which was repeatedly cited by petitioner People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) as the one which could be taken as a model for other states to emulate.

"We would like the Centre's comment on the Chhattisgarh model because we do not have a mechanism to check. If everyone agrees that Chhattisgarh model is the best, what is the Centre's view and can it be emulated in other states," asked a bench of Justices TS Thakur and FM I Kalifulla.

Attorney general GE Vahanvati was initially liberal in praising the implementation of TPDS by the Chhattisgarh government and said the Centre had cited the state's example in international forums.

However, when the praise grew louder, the AG said he would have to get feedback from the ministry of consumer affairs on the issue of implementation of TPDS in Chhattisgarh.

PUCL counsel Colin Gonsalves said Chhattisgarh had abolished privately run fair price shops which had become dens of corruption as food grain meant for the poorest of the poor was diverted to the open market by unscrupulous elements.

"Chhattisgarh has given the distribution to mahila mandals (women's conferences) and self-help groups (SHGs). These have achieved excellent results in the state," Gonsalves said. But the bench asked whether permitting SHGs to operate fair price shops was tested anywhere else and wanted to know what should be the time period for the switchover from private dealers to SHGs.

Gonsalves cited another BJP-ruled state as an example. "Madhya Pradesh too experimented with the Chhattisgarh model to achieve huge success in reaching the poorest of the poor with subsidized food grains. Chhattisgarh first trained the mahila mandals and SHGs in running the FPS and then brought in a law abolishing private run FPS. In six months, the switchover happened," he said.

The Times of India, 5 March, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Supreme-Court-seeks-Centres-response-on-Chhattisgarh-PDS-model/articleshow/18804758.cms


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