Lok Sabha Question No. 2831 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-03
Subject: Food Subsidy
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Parbatbhai Savabhai Patel, Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2831

TO BE ANSWERED ON 3 RD  AUGUST, 2022

## FOOD SUBSIDY

†2831.  SHRI PARBATBHAI SAVABHAI PATEL: SHRI NARANBHAI KACHHADIYA:

Will the Minister of CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION उपभोᲦा मामले , खा᳒ और सावᭅजिनक िवतरण मंᮢी be pleased to state:

- (a)
- the details of food subsidy released to States/ UTs during the year 2020-21;
- (b) the year-wise details of food subsidy released to Gujarat under decentralised procurement system during the last three years; and
- (c) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  issue  food  coupons  to  every  BPL household  who  can  get  foodgrains  through  these  coupons  in  place  of  cash  at public  distribution  shops  in  order  to  make  the  public  distribution  system  more effective?

## A N S W E R

MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONSUMER

AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

- (a):    Department  of  Food  and  Public  Distribution  (DFPD),  Government  of  India deals  with  the  release  of  food  subsidy  to  Food  Corporation  of  India  (FCI)  and States which  have  adopted Decentralized Procurement  (DCP). States are allocated foodgrains at subsidized rates under National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) and Other Welfare Schemes (OWS). Difference between Economic Cost and  Central  Issue  Price  (CIP),  at  which  foodgrains  are  issued  to  States,  is reimbursed to FCI as food subsidy. In case of DCP States, food subsidy is directly released  to  States  by  Government  of  India  for  quantity  of  foodgrains  procured and  distributed  by  them  under  NFSA  and  Other  Welfare  Schemes.  FCI  further releases funds to Non-DCP States for quantum of foodgrains received by FCI from Non-DCP States.  The  subsidy  is  provided  to  DCP  States  and  FCI,  which  is  the instrument of the Government of India for procurement and distribution of wheat and rice under NFSA and Other Welfare Schemes and for maintaining the buffer stock of foodgrains as a measure of food security.

Details of food  subsidy  released  to States/UT during the year 2020-21 is enclosed at Annexure-I.

- (b): Details  of  food  subsidy  released  to  the  Gujarat  under  decentralized procurement  system  during  the last three years is enclosed at Annexure-II.
- (c): No such proposal is presently under consideration.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2831 FOR ANSWER ON 03.08.2022 IN THE LOK SABHA.

## Statement indicating the subsidy released to DCP States during the 2020-21

:(Rs in crores)

| S. No.   | Name of theState   |   2020-21 |
|----------|--------------------|-----------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh     |   8424.72 |
| 2        | Bihar              |   4117.33 |
| 3        | Chhattisgarh       |   7193.13 |
| 4        | Gujarat            |      9.24 |
| 5        | Karnataka          |    323.99 |
| 6        | Kerala             |   1214.98 |
| 7        | Madhya Pradesh     |  11946.4  |
| 8        | Maharashtra        |   2555.74 |
| 9        | Odisha             |   8985.73 |
| 10       | Punjab             |   1761.53 |
| 11       | Rajasthan#         |      0    |
| 12       | Tamil Nadu         |   3109.76 |
| 13       | Telangana          |   6879.59 |
| 14       | Uttar Pradesh      |      0    |
| 15       | Uttarakhand        |   1371.33 |
| 16       | West Bengal        |   8792.03 |
| 17       | Jharkhand##        |      3.66 |
| 18       | Tripura            |     29.79 |
| 19       | DBT*               |    182.78 |
|          |                    |  66901.8  |

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2831 FOR ANSWER ON 03.08.2022 IN THE LOK SABHA.

## Statement indicating the subsidy released to GUJARAT during last three years under NFSA & Other Welfare Scheme (OWS) (including PMGKAY):

(Rs in crores)

|   S. No. | Years                   |   Amount |
|----------|-------------------------|----------|
|        1 | 2019-20                 |    69.03 |
|        2 | 2020-21                 |     9.24 |
|        3 | 2021-22                 |   749.43 |
|        4 | 22-23 (as on 28.07.2022 |    74.45 |

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