Lok Sabha Question No. 412 (STARRED), answered on 2023-03-29
Subject: Free Foodgrains for Migrant Workers
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Navneet Ravi Rana, Locket Chatterjee

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.412 TO BE ANSWERED ON 29TH MARCH, 2023

## FREE FOODGRAINS FOR MIGRANT WORKERS

## +*412. SHRIMATI NAVNEET RAVI RANA: MS. LOCKET CHATTERJEE:

Will the Minister of CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC

- (a) the details of free foodgrains allocated to the States for distribution under Public Distribution System for migrant workers under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan (ABA);
- (b) whether any survey has been conducted regarding the quantum of foodgrains allocated and distributed to the States;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, State-wise; and
- (d) if not, the reasons therefor?

MINISTER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY, CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION AND TEXTILES (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

(a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED To IN REPLY To PARTS To (d) OF THE STARRED QUESTION FOR ANSWER ON 29.03.2023 IN THE LOK SABHA.

(a) to (d): In pursuance to the economic measures announced by the Government under the 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat Package' in 2020, the Department had allocated LMT foodgrains to all StateslUTs under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Scheme (ANBS) for free of cost distribution to the migrantslstranded migrant persons and those neither covered under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) nor under any State PDS scheme, at the scale of 5 per person per month for a period of 2 months and June 2020. All States/UTs had collectively estimated a total of about 2.8 Crore such needy persons and had lifted a total of about 6.4 LMT foodgrains from the FCI Depots/Central Stocks. Further, StatesIUTs reported a total distribution of about 2.74 LMT foodgrains, covering about 2.74 Crore persons in the country, for the period of two months of and June 2020. The StatelUT-wise distributionlutilization pattern of the foodgrains under ANBS of 2020 is at Annexure-I. May kg May

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) to (d) OF STARRED QUESTION No. 412 FOR ANSWER ON 29.03.2023 IN THE LOK SABHA

| Sr.   | StatelUT                  | Total Allocation   | Total Distributed Quantity under ANB   |
|-------|---------------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------------|
|       |                           | (in MTs)           | (in MTs)                               |
|       | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 61                 | 60                                     |
| 2     | Andhra Pradesh            | 26,823             |                                        |
| 3     | Arunachal Pradesh         | 820                | 799                                    |
|       | Assam                     | 25,153             | 15,712                                 |
| 5     | Bihar                     | 86,450             | 86,449                                 |
|       | Chandigarh                | 275                | 146                                    |
|       | Chhattisgarh              | 20,077             | 1,964                                  |
| 8     | Daman & Diu DeNN          | 285                | 159                                    |
| 9     | Delhi                     | 7,273              | 4,544                                  |
| 10    | Goa                       | 532                | 22                                     |
|       | Gujarat                   | 38,254             | 287                                    |
| 12    | Haryana                   | 12,649             | 7,959                                  |
| 13    | Himachal Pradesh          | 2,864              | 2,028                                  |
| 14    | Jammu And Kashmir         | 7,241              | 1,958                                  |
| 15    | Jharkhand                 | 26,370             | 717.2                                  |
| 16    | Karnataka                 | 40,193             | 11,600                                 |
| 17    | Kerala                    | 15,480             | 2,142                                  |
| 18    |                           | 144                | 33                                     |
| 19    | Lakshadweep               | 22                 | 15                                     |
| 20    | Madhya Pradesh            | 642 54,6           | 1,754                                  |
| 21    | Maharashtra               | 70,017             | 17,315                                 |

| 22          | Manipur       | 2,457    | 676      |
|-------------|---------------|----------|----------|
| 23          | Meghalaya     | 2,146    | 2,145    |
| 24          | Mizoram       | 668      | 250      |
| 25          | Nagaland      | 1,405    | 1,405    |
| 26          | Odisha        | 32,360   | 630      |
| 27          | Puducherry    | 628      | 73       |
| 28          | Punjab        | 14,145   | 10,902   |
| 29          | Rajasthan     | 662 44,6 | 42,478   |
| 30          | Sikkim        | 379      | 315      |
| 31          | Tamil Nadu    | 35,734   | 1,449    |
| 32          | Telangana     | 19,162   | 180      |
| 33          | Tripura       | 2,483    | 22       |
| 34          | Uttar Pradesh | 1,42,033 | 11,809   |
| 35          | Uttarakhand   | 6,196    | 383      |
| 36          | West Bengal   | 60,184   | 45,894   |
| Grand Total | Grand Total   | 8,00,267 | 2,74,279 |