Lok Sabha Question No. 3629 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-10
Subject: Beneficaries under PDS and ONORC
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Jagdambika Pal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MtNtsTRy oF col{suMER AFFAIRS, FOOD &  pUBLtC  DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTTON  NO. 3629

TO BE ANSWERED  ON tOil AUGUST,2O2I

## BENEFICIARIES  UNDER PDS AND ONORC

## 3529. SHR! JAGIIAMBIKA PAL:

Will the Minister  of GONSUMER  AFFAIRS, FOOD AND  pUBLtC

DlsrRIBUTtOil rcstrfar arrd, sr(-q sit{ {rfff,fi, fid{ur }ifr be pteased  to state:

- (a)  the quantity  of food provided  to beneficiaries under the  pubric Distribution System (PDS);
- (b)  the beneliciaries under the  yarious  packages  announced by the Governmentl
- (c)  the number  of ration card hotders that were added during this time period;  and
- (d)  the number of beneficiaries which avaited the benelits under One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC)  Scheme?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR MI}IISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT  AND coNsuMER AFFATRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRTBUTIOil (sADHVt  ilIRANJAN JYOTI)

- (a): During Financial Year 2O2O-2{  a  total quantity  of  548.{5 LMT foodgrains have been allocated tor all the States/UTs  under  public Distribution System(PDS).
- (b): Under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yoiana (PMGKAY), allocation  of foodgrains have been made for around 8O crore beneficiaries of all the 36 States/UTs covered under NFSA (Antyodaya  Anna  yoiana (AAY) & Priority Households  (PHH)) includlng  those covered  under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).

Under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Scheme  (ANBS),  the covernment  liberalty allocated free  of  cost  foodgrains  to  cater to  about 8 Grore migrants/stranded  migrants. AII the States/UTs put together,  after their overall assessment on the ground, had estimated a total of about 2.E Grore such migrants/stranded migrants, who did not posses  any ration card for assistance under the  ANBS. Under the scheme, foodgrains were distributed  to an average of about 2.74 Crore migrants/stranded  migrants (i.e. nearly 98o/o of the tota! estimated number of migrants/stranded magrants). The responslbility of identifyring the beneficiaries under ANBS was given to the States/UTs.

- (c): The Targeted Public Distribution  System under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2O{3 is operated under the  ioint  responsibillty of Gentral and State/UT Governments.  It is the responsibility  of the State/UT Governments  to identify eligible households/beneficiaries  covered under NFSA namely Antyodaya  Anna Yoiana (AAY) and priority househotds (PHH) as per criteria evolved by the concemed  State/UT Government. lssuance of their ration cards and distribution of foodgrains to them as per their entatlement through fair price shops, is also the responsibilityr of the respective  State/UT Govt.
- (d): The ONORG plan which empowers all NFSA beneficiaries, patticularly migrant beneficiaries, is  enabled in  33 States/UTs, about 69 Grore beneficiaries  (almost 86.7% NFSA population)  in the country to have an option to lift their entitled foodgrains from any Fair Prlce Shop (FPS) by using their same existing ration card. Presently, an average of about 1.3 to {.5 Grore portability transactlons  (intra-state/inter-state}  are recorded under ONORG every month.

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