Lok Sabha Question No. 3549 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-08
Subject: Utilization Certificates
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3549 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08 th  AUGUST, 2017

## UTILIZATION CERTIFICATES

## 3549.   SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI:

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- (a) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  for  adoption  of  Decentralized Procurement Scheme by all the States/UTs and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the  concrete  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  set  timelines  for submission  of  Utilization  Certificates  and  persuade  the  States/UTs  to furnish Utilization Certificates timely so that the allocated funds under the decentralized procurement scheme could be meaningfully utilized; and
- (c) the  actions  taken  by  the  Government  to  carry  out  a  performance evaluation of the  working of the scheme so far by an external evaluation agency in a time-bound manner, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

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

(a):  Government  of  India  has  requested  all  the  major  procuring  Nonof procurement from Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2016-17 and RMS 2017-18

Decentralized Procurement (DCP) states to adopt DCP System onwards.

As  a  result  of  continuous  efforts,  recently  the  States  of  Jharkhand (for one district) and Maharashtra have adopted DCP operation for rice/paddy during KMS 2016-17. The State of Gujarat has adopted DCP for procurement of rice from KMS 2017-18 onwards.

As  on  date  15  States  have  adopted  DCP  mode  for  procurement  of Rice, out of which Jharkhand has only partially adopted it. Further, 8 States have adopted DCP mode for procurement of wheat, of which Rajasthan has only  partially  adopted  DCP  operation,  however,  the  State  was  included  in Centralized Procurement for Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) 2017-18 only, on its own request.

## The list of DCP States is at Annexure.

(b):  For  the  States  which  has  adopted  DCP  Scheme,  advance  food  subsidy and provisional food subsidy is released directly to them on quarterly basis by Government of India (GOI) under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and Other Welfare Schemes (OWS), only after the submission of Utilization Certificates  for  the  previously  released  subsidy.  Pay  and  Accounts  Office (PAO)  also  ensures  that  the  Utilization  Certificates  are  submitted  by  the State Governments before next subsidy is released.

(c):  The  NITI  Aayog  is  conducting  an  evaluation  study  of  DCP  Scheme  for procurement of wheat/paddy under Minimum Support Price (MSP).

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## Paddy/Rice

|   Sl. No. | State                                       |
|-----------|---------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Andaman &Nicobar                            |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh                              |
|         3 | Bihar                                       |
|         4 | Chhattisgarh                                |
|         5 | Karnataka                                   |
|         6 | Kerala                                      |
|         7 | Madhya Pradesh                              |
|         8 | Odisha                                      |
|         9 | Tamilnadu                                   |
|        10 | Telangana                                   |
|        11 | Uttarakhand                                 |
|        12 | West Bengal                                 |
|        13 | Maharashtra                                 |
|        14 | Jharkhand (1 revenue district Ramgarh only) |
|        15 | Gujarat                                     |

## Wheat

|   Sl. No. | State                            |
|-----------|----------------------------------|
|         1 | Bihar                            |
|         2 | Chhattisgarh                     |
|         3 | Gujarat                          |
|         4 | Madhya Pradesh                   |
|         5 | Rajasthan (9 revenue district) * |
|         6 | Uttarakhand                      |
|         7 | West Bengal                      |
|         8 | Punjab                           |

* Rajasthan has been included in Centralized Procurement only for RMS 2017-18.

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## ANNEXURE-I

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO  3549    TO  BE  ANSWERED  ON  8 th   AUGUST,  2017  IN  LOK SABHA.

## List of DCP States