Lok Sabha Question No. 467 (STARRED), answered on 2023-04-05
Subject: Distribution of Foodgrains under PMGKAY
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Arun Sao

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.467 TO BE ANSWERED ON 5TH APRIL, 2023

## DISTRIBUTION OF FOODGRAINS UNDER PMGKAY

## +*467 . SHRI ARUN SAO:

Will the Minister of CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC

- (a) the date on which the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) scheme was launched and the duration for which it is likely to run in future;
- (b) the State-wise details of the quantity of foodgrains distributed along with the number of beneficiaries under the said scheme far including Chhattisgarh;
- (c) the category of people who are considered eligible under the PMGKAY and the eligibility criteria fixed therefor;
- (d) the State-wise details of the benefits and the quantity of foodgrains distributed under the PMGKAY including Chhattisgarh;
- (e) whether some State Governments are distributing two kilograms of rice instead of five kilograms per beneficiary under the PMGKAY; and only
- (f) if so, the action being taken by the Government thereon?

## ANSWER

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

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

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (f) OF THE STARRED QUESTION NO.467 FOR ANSWER ON 05.04.2023 IN THE LOK SABHA:

(a) to (d): The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) had been launched during the period April, 2020 to December, 2022 with the specific purpose of ameliorating the hardships faced by the poor and needy due to economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak in the country: Under this scheme, Central Government had allocated total of 1118 LMT foodgrains, over and above normal allocation done under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 (i.e: Antyodaya Anna Yojana and Priority Category Households) to all the StatesIUTs free of cost distribution to about existing 80 crore beneficiaries as covered under NFSA: for

The Central Government, to remove the financial burden of the poor beneficiaries and to ensure nationwide uniformity and effective implementation of NFSA, has decided to provide food grains free of cost to the beneficiaries under AAY households (@35 Kg of food grains per family per month) and PHH beneficiaries (@5Kg of food grains per person per month) covered under NFSA, 2013, for a period of one year, beginning from Ist Jan 2023 under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana by subsuming two current food subsidy schemes of the Department of Food and Public Distributiona) Food Subsidy to FCI for NFSA, and b) Food Subsidy for decentralized procurement states, dealing with procurement, allocation and delivery of free foodgrains to the states under NFSA:

The NFSA Act provides that the State Government shall, within the ceiling of beneficiaries determined for the State, identify the households to be covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana to the extent specified by the Central Government, in accordance with the guidelines applicable to the said scheme and the remaining households as priority households to be covered under the Targeted Public Distribution System, in accordance with such guidelines evolved by the State Government itself: Thus, the criteria for identification of beneficiaries under Priority Households Category may vary from State to State. The actual number of beneficiaries keeps on changing based on additionldeletion of ration cards due to various reasons, as reported by StateslUTs from time to time:

The State-wise details of the no. of beneficiaries covered under NFSA and foodgrains distributed under PMGKAY, including Chhattisgarh, are placed at Annexure-I & Annexure-II.

(e) & (f): No such incidents have been reported: Under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) [and PMGKAY too since the targeted beneficiaries are same] the Central Govt is only responsible for allocation and transportation of foodgrains upto the designated depots of the and the identification of eligible beneficiaries, issuance of ration cards to them, distribution of foodgrains to eligible beneficiaries rest with the concerned StatelUT Govt: FCI,

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Annexure-[ ANNEXURE

## REFERRED IN REPLY PART (a) to (d) OF STARRED QUESTION NO.467 FOR ANSWER ON 05.04.2023 IN THE LOK SABHA

| Statement indicating State-Wise number of Personslfamilies Covered under National Food Security Act, 2013 As on 20.03.2023   | Statement indicating State-Wise number of Personslfamilies Covered under National Food Security Act, 2013 As on 20.03.2023   | Statement indicating State-Wise number of Personslfamilies Covered under National Food Security Act, 2013 As on 20.03.2023   | Statement indicating State-Wise number of Personslfamilies Covered under National Food Security Act, 2013 As on 20.03.2023   | Statement indicating State-Wise number of Personslfamilies Covered under National Food Security Act, 2013 As on 20.03.2023   | Statement indicating State-Wise number of Personslfamilies Covered under National Food Security Act, 2013 As on 20.03.2023   |
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| No.                                                                                                                          | (statesl UTs                                                                                                                 |                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                              |
| No.                                                                                                                          | (statesl UTs                                                                                                                 | AAY                                                                                                                          | Priority                                                                                                                     | Total persons                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                              |
| No.                                                                                                                          | No. of families                                                                                                              | No. of person                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                              | Total persons                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                              |
|                                                                                                                              | 9.08 Andhra Pradesh                                                                                                          | 23.52                                                                                                                        | persons 244.70                                                                                                               | 268.22                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 2                                                                                                                            | 0.38 Arunachal Pradesh                                                                                                       | 1.50                                                                                                                         | 6.90                                                                                                                         | 8.40                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                                              |
| 3 JAssam                                                                                                                     | 6.92                                                                                                                         | 28.08                                                                                                                        | 223.08                                                                                                                       | 251.17                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 4 Bihar                                                                                                                      | 25.01                                                                                                                        | 125.05                                                                                                                       | 746.11                                                                                                                       | 871.16                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 5 (Chattisgarh                                                                                                               | 7.19                                                                                                                         | 20.42                                                                                                                        | 180.35                                                                                                                       | 200.77                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 6 Delhi                                                                                                                      | 0.69                                                                                                                         | 2.80                                                                                                                         | 69.98                                                                                                                        | 72.78                                                                                                                        |                                                                                                                              |
| 7 Goa                                                                                                                        | 0.12                                                                                                                         | 0.46                                                                                                                         | 4.86                                                                                                                         | 5.32                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                                              |
| 8 Gujarat                                                                                                                    | 7.88                                                                                                                         | 35.67                                                                                                                        | 308.48                                                                                                                       | 344.15                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 9 Haryana                                                                                                                    | 2.68                                                                                                                         | 11.35                                                                                                                        | 115.14                                                                                                                       | 126.49                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 10                                                                                                                           | 1.82                                                                                                                         | 7.67                                                                                                                         | 20.98                                                                                                                        | 28.64                                                                                                                        |                                                                                                                              |
| 11 Jharkhand                                                                                                                 | 8.98                                                                                                                         | 35.65                                                                                                                        | 228.47                                                                                                                       | 264.12                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 12                                                                                                                           | 10.97                                                                                                                        | 43.91                                                                                                                        | 358.02                                                                                                                       | 401.93                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 13 Kerala                                                                                                                    | 5.96                                                                                                                         | 25.59                                                                                                                        | 129.21                                                                                                                       | 154.80                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 14 Madhya Pradesh                                                                                                            | 14.76                                                                                                                        | 57.06                                                                                                                        | 454.26                                                                                                                       | 511.32                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 15 Maharashtra                                                                                                               | 25.05                                                                                                                        | 108.01                                                                                                                       | 592.16                                                                                                                       | 700.17                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                              |
| 16                                                                                                                           | 0.64                                                                                                                         | 1.82                                                                                                                         | 18.26                                                                                                                        | 20.08                                                                                                                        |                                                                                                                              |
| 17 Meghalaya                                                                                                                 | 0.70                                                                                                                         | 2.91                                                                                                                         | 18.54                                                                                                                        | 21.46                                                                                                                        |                                                                                                                              |
| 18 Mizoram                                                                                                                   | 0.26                                                                                                                         | 0.82                                                                                                                         | 5.86                                                                                                                         | 6.68                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                                              |
| Nagaland                                                                                                                     | 0.48                                                                                                                         | 2.11                                                                                                                         | 11.94                                                                                                                        | 14.05                                                                                                                        |                                                                                                                              |

| 20                  | Odisha   |   12.53 | 37.81   | 287.22   | 325.03   |
|---------------------|----------|---------|---------|----------|----------|
| Punjab              | 1.79     |    7.71 | 133.80  | 141.51   | 21       |
| Rajasthan           | 6.29     |   22.29 | 417.72  | 440.01   | 22       |
| 23 Sikkim           | 0.17     |    0.57 | 3.24    | 3.81     |          |
| 24 Tamil Nadu       | 18.65    |   68.6  |         | 296.10   | 364.69   |
| Telangana           | 5.67     |   15.29 | 176.33  | 191.62   | 25       |
| Tripura             | 1.08     |    4.64 | 19.68   | 24.32    | 26       |
| Uttar Pradesh       | 40.92    |  132.8  | 1364.97 | 1497.77  | 27       |
| Uttarakhand         | 1.84     |    7.92 | 54.02   | 61.94    | 28       |
| West Bengal         | 16.42    |   54.99 | 546.85  | 601.84   | 29       |
| IA&N                | 0.04     |    0.14 | 0.46    | 0.61     | 30       |
| DNH&DD              | 0.05     |    0.24 | 2.45    | 2.69     | 31       |
| Lakshadweep         | 0.01     |    0.04 | 0.18    | 0.22     | 32       |
| Chandigarh (DBT)    | 0.00     |    0.01 | 2.98    | 2.99     | 33       |
| 34 [Puduchery (DBT) | 0.25     |    0.82 | 5.52    | 6.34     |          |
| 35                  | 2.33     |   10.61 | 61.80   |          | 72.41    |
| 36 Ladakh           | 0.06     |    0.29 | 1.15    |          | 1.44     |
| Total               | Total    |  237.67 | 899.16  | 7111.80  | 8010.96  |

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED To IN REPLY PART (a) to (d) OF STARRED QUESTION NO.467 FOR ANSWER ON 05.04.2023 IN THE LOK SABHA

|    | States/UTs                | Total Allocation (in MTs)   | Total Distribution (in MTs)   |
|----|---------------------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|
|    | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 8,513                       | 8,068                         |
| 2  | Andhra Pradesh            | 3,755,142                   | 2,849,587                     |
| 3  | Arunachal Pradesh         | 116,888                     | 105,590                       |
| 4  | Assam                     | 3,517,770                   | 3,238,365                     |
| 5  | Bihar                     | 12,186,294                  | 10,982,177                    |
| 6  | Chandigarh                | 38,600                      | 36,543                        |
|    | Chhattisgarh              | 2,810,780                   | 2,748,784                     |
| 8  | Daman & Diu DeNN          | 40,459                      | 36,672                        |
| 9  | Delhi                     | 1,018,733                   | 961,396                       |
| 10 | Goa                       | 74,500                      | 70,509                        |
| 11 | Gujarat                   | 4,897,097                   | 4,586,201                     |
| 12 | Haryana                   | 1,770,860                   | 1,613,846                     |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh          | 401,016                     | 376,823                       |
| 14 | Jammu And Kashmir         |                             | 896,527                       |
| 15 | Jharkhand                 | 3,694,095                   | 3,262,639                     |
| 16 | Karnataka                 | 5,627,020                   | 5,358,838                     |
| 17 | Kerala                    | 2,167,200                   | 2,017,993                     |
| 18 | Ladakh                    | 132                         | 18,482                        |
| 19 | Lakshadweep               | 3,062                       | 2,808                         |
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh            | 7,011,556                   | 6,521,612                     |
| 21 | Maharashtra               | 9,802,344                   | 8,467,281                     |
| 22 | Manipur                   | 293,610                     | 284,229                       |
| 23 | Meghalaya                 | 300,384                     | 283,136                       |
| 24 | Mizoram                   | 93,548                      | 199 92,                       |
| 25 | Nagaland                  | 196,644                     | 176,887                       |

| 26   | Odisha        | 4,537,817   | 4,251,691   |
|------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
| 27   | Puducherry    | 88,187      | 102,177     |
| 28   | Punjab        | 1,980,940   | 1,896,021   |
| 29   | Rajasthan     | 6,186,600   | 5,809,223   |
| 30   | Sikkim        | 53,032      | 44,593      |
| 31   | Tamil Nadu    | 5,076,292   | 4,360,488   |
| 32   | Telangana     | 2,682,700   | 2,517,475   |
| 33   | Tripura       | 347,492     | 335,166     |
| 34   | Uttar Pradesh | 20,612,804  | 18,299,665  |
| 35   | Uttarakhand   | 867,187     | 797,004     |
| 36   | West Bengal   | 8,425,732   | 8,103,158   |
|      | Total         | 111,718,770 | 101,513,852 |