Lok Sabha Question No. 1134 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-26
Subject: Ration to BPL Families
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Rajendra Agrawal

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.11 34

TO BE ANSWERED ON 26TH JULY1 2023

## RATION TO BPL FAMILIES

## 111 348 SHRI RAJENDRA AGRAWAL:

Will the Minister of CONSUMER  AFFAIRS, FOOD  AND  PUBLIC

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- (a)  the district-wise details of the quantity of  wheat, rice,  sugar, kerosene and other items distributed by the Union Government and the State Government of Uttar Pradesh through the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the farnilies living Below Poverty Line (BPL) in Uttar Pradesh from
- June, 2019 to June, 2023;
- (b) the district-wise number of BPL families to whom rations have been
- supplied by the State  Government from June, 2019 to June, 2023; and
- (c) the State-wise and UT-wise details of the honorariurn/commission
- received by the  PDS dealers during each year of  the said period in the country including that Uttar Pradesh?

## ANSWER INISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

(a)& (b) As per the provisions of the National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA), the  Department allocates foodgrains to  all  States/UTs for distribution  to  the  NFSA ration  card  holders  by  them  (including  Uttar Pradesh) under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and Priority Household (PHH) categories of the Act. The NFSA is operational in a uniform manner in all States/UTs, and there is no Below Poverty Line (BPL) category under the Act. At  present, total  14.98 Crore NFSA beneficiaries identified by State Government of  Uttar  Pradesh (i.e. 1.33 Crore AAY and 13.65 Crore PHH beneficiaries). As  per  the  NFSA 2013,  35  Kg  foodgrains have  been distributed  to AAY beneficiaries  and 5 Kg foodgrains to  PHH beneficiaries per person per month.

(c): in  compliance of Section 24(4)(d) of the  National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA), Central Government provides assistance to  States/UTs for meeting expenditure on intra-State movement and handling of foodgrains and fair price shop dealers'  margin under the scheme 'Assistance  to State Agencies for  intra-State  movement of foodgrains  and FPS dealers' margin under NFSA' as  per the  provisions of  the  Food Security  (Assistance to State Governments) Rules, 2015 as amended from time to time.. Under the Rules, the  rate of  fair  price shop dealers' margin is specified as per Annexure-1. There is no provision under the Rules for grant of honorarium to the fair price shop dealers.

In addition, State Governments have the flexibility  to fix  the actual rate of margin, but the Central assistance is restricted to Central share based on the actual rate or the norms of expenditure mentioned in the table  above, whichever  is lower.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1134 FOR ANSWER ON 26.07.2023  IN THE LOK SABHA.

## Upto March, 2022

|                    | Fair Price Shop Dealers' margin (per quintal\ (in Rupees   | Fair Price Shop Dealers' margin (per quintal\ (in Rupees   | Central Share   |
|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------|
| Category of States | Basic                                                      | Additional margin for sale through point-of-sale device    |                 |
| General            | 70                                                         | 17                                                         | 50%             |
| Special*           | 143                                                        | 17                                                         | 75%             |

## From April, 2022 onwards

|                    | Fair Price Shop Dealers' margin (per quinta, In Rupees   | Fair Price Shop Dealers' margin (per quinta, In Rupees   | Central Share   |
|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|-----------------|
| Category of States | Basic                                                    | Additional margin for sale through point-of-sale device  |                 |
| General            | 90                                                       | 21                                                       | 50%             |
| Special*           | 1 80                                                     | 26                                                       | 75%             |