Lok Sabha Question No. 289 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-18
Subject: Wheat Supply to Meghalaya
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: VINCENT H PALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 289

TO BE ANSWERED ON 18 TH  JULY, 2017

## WHEAT SUPPLY TO MEGHALAYA

## 289.  SHRI VINCENT H. PALA:

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(a) whether  the  Government  is  planning  to  digitise  the  names  of  the distributors/wholesalers and consumers in the North east India, if so, the names of the States where the digitisation has been completed;

- (b) the  quantum of wheat supplied to Meghalaya by the FCI during the last  three years and the amount involved therein;
- (c) the terms and conditions to be a beneficiary of subsidized wheat from the Government; and
- (d) the names of the wholesalers in the State of Meghalaya for the last three years and the quantum allocated to each wholesaler?

A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SHRI C. R. CHAUDHARY)

(a): Department  of  Food  and  Public  Distribution  is  implementing  a scheme on 'End-to-end Computerization of TPDS Operations'. The Component-I of the scheme comprises digitization of ration cards/beneficiary and  other  databases,  online  allocation,  Computerization  of  Supply-Chain Management,  Setting  up  of  transparency  portal  and  grievance  redressal mechanism.  The  ration  cards/beneficiary  details  have  been  digitized  in  all States/UTs.

(b): The allotment and offtake of wheat under TPDS/NFSA & OWS during 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 in  Meghalaya are as under:

(Fig. in thousand Tonnes)

| Year    | Wheat     | Wheat   |
|---------|-----------|---------|
| Year    | Allotment | Offtake |
| 2014-15 | 20.03     | 21.04   |
| 2015-16 | 28.10     | 25.46   |
| 2016-17 | 19.09     | 23.86   |

## Economic Cost and CIP of wheat for the last three years are as below. Rate. In Rs./ Qtl.

| Years         |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 (RE) |
|---------------|-----------|-----------|----------------|
| Economic Cost |   2051.24 |   2127.39 |         2242.4 |
| APL           |    610    |    610    |          610   |
| BPL           |    415    |    415    |          415   |
| AAY           |    200    |    200    |          200   |
| NFSA          |    200    |    200    |          200   |

- (c): As  per  the  guidelines  issued  by  the  Government,  the  AAY  families are to be identified by States/UTs as per the following criteria:
- i) Landless  agriculture  labourers,  marginal  farmers,  rural  artisans /craftsmen, such as potters, tanners, weavers, blacksmiths, carpenters, slum dwellers and persons earning their livelihood on daily  basis  in  the  informal  sector  like  porters,  coolies,  rickshaw pullers, hand cart pullers, fruit and flower sellers, snake charmers, rag  pickers,  cobblers,  destitutes  and  other  similar  categories  in both  rural and  urban areas.
- ii) Households  headed  by  widows  or  terminally  ill  persons/disabled persons/ persons aged 60 years or more with no assured means of subsistence or societal support.
- iii) Widows  or  terminally  ill  persons  or  disabled  persons  or  persons aged  60  years  or  more  or  single  women  or  single  men  with  no family or societal support or assured means of subsistence.
- iv) All primitive tribal households.
- v) All  eligible  Below  Poverty  Line  (BPL)  families  of  HIV  positive persons.

Priority  Households  (PHH)  are  to  be  identified  by  the  State  Government/UT Administration as per criteria evolved by them.

- (d): Foodgrains is supplied to the State Government of Meghalaya through FCI.

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