Lok Sabha Question No. 562 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-20
Subject: Coverage Under AAY
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Rajeshbhai Naranbhai Chudasama

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

## DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.562 To BE ANSWERED ON JULY, 2022

## COVERAGE UNDER AAY

## 562. SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAMA:

Will the Minister of CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND be pleased to state:

PUBLIC

- (a) whether it is a fact that a large number of people were left out of Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY);
- if so, the details of procedure for automatic inclusion; State-wise and
- (b) if not, the reasons therefor; and
- agricultural labourers, marginal farmers, rural
- (c) the details of landless artisans, urban slum dwellers, informal sector workers and households headed by elderly, disabled or widows and particularly vulnerable tribal groups that are covered under AAY, StatelUTwise?

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND

CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SADHVI NIRANJAN JyOTI)

- (a): Before the advent of National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) was formulated by the Government to provide highly subsidized  foodgrains to about 2.5 Crore poorest of poor households in the country through the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) every month:

Later, under NFSA, the AAY was adopted as one of its categories for continued benefit of highly subsidized foodgrains to 2.5 Crore poorest-ofpoor households, besides the Priority Households (PHH) category beneficiaries.

Presently, against the ceiling of 2.5 Crore AAY families under NFSA, about 2.38 Crore AAY families i.e. about 9.00 Crore persons are covered by the StateslUTs in the country:

- (b): As per the provisions of NFSA, inter-alia, the identification of eligible households under AAY and issuance of ration cards to them is done by the respective StatelUT Governments through their own procedures, criteria and norms, up to the maximum ceiling limit of AAY households for each StatelUT provided the Actby
- (c): The minimum  suggestive  guidelines to StateslUTs for inclusion of eligible households under the AAY include households comprising landless agricultural labourers, marginal farmers, rural artisanslcraftsmen such as potters, tanners, weavers, blacksmiths, carpenters, slum dwellers and those earning their livelihood on daily basis in the informal sector like porters, coolies, rickshaw pullers, hand cart pullers, rag-pickers, destitutes, and other similar categories, households headed by elderly or disabled or widows or terminally ill persons, disabled personsl persons aged 60 years and above other vulnerable and triballprimitive households, etc. in the country for obtaining highly subsidized foodgrains on monthly basis. A statement showing StatelUT wise number of AAY households is annexed:

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 562 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 20.07.2022 IN THE LOK SABHA:

## Number of households covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana under the National Food Security Act; 2013

Fig:in lakh

|    | States/ UTs               | ICeiling of AAY HH   | No. of families   |
|----|---------------------------|----------------------|-------------------|
|    | Andhra Pradesh            | 9.09                 | 9.08              |
| 2  | Arunachal Pradesh         | 0.38                 | 0.38              |
|    | Assam                     | 7.04                 | 6.92              |
|    | Bihar                     | 25.01                | 25.01             |
|    | Chattisgarh               | 7.19                 | 7.19              |
|    |                           |                      | 0.52              |
|    |                           | 038                  |                   |
|    | Gujarat                   | 8.13                 | 7.98              |
|    | Haryana                   | 3.03                 | 2.68              |
| 10 | Himachal Pradesh          | 1.97                 | 1.82              |
| 11 | Jharkhand                 | 9.18                 | 8.98              |
| 12 | Karnataka                 | 12.00                | 10.97             |
| 13 | Kerala                    | 5.96                 | 5.96              |
|    | Madhya Pradesh            | 15.82                | 14.81             |
| 15 | Maharashtra               | 25.05                | 25.05             |
| 16 | Manipur                   | 0.64                 | 0.64              |
| 17 | Meghalaya                 | 0.70                 | 0.70              |
|    | Mizoram                   | 0.26                 | 0.26              |
| 19 | Nagaland                  | 0.48                 | 0.48              |
| 20 | Odisha                    | 12.65                | 12.53             |
| 21 | Punjab                    | 1.79                 | 1.79              |
| 22 | Rajasthan                 | 9.32                 | 6.29              |
| 23 | Sikkim                    | 0.17                 | 0.17              |
| 24 | Tamil Nadu                | 18.65                | 18.65             |
| 25 | Telangana_                | 6.49                 | 5.67              |
| 26 | Tripura_                  | 1.13                 | 1.10              |
| 27 | Uttar Pradesh             | 40.95                | 40.92             |
| 28 | Uttarakhand               | 1.91                 | 1.84              |
| 29 | West Bengal               | 19.86                | 16.42             |
| 30 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 0.11                 | 0.04              |
| 31 | DNHeDD                    | 0.08                 | 0.05              |
| 32 | Lakshadweep               | 0.01                 | 0.01              |
| 33 |                           | 0.09                 | 0.00              |
|    | Puduchery (DBT)           | 0.32                 | 0.25              |
| 35 | Jammu & Kashmir           | 2.76                 | 2.33              |
| 36 | Ladakh                    | 0.06                 | 0.06              |
|    | Total                     | 250.00               | 237.83            |