Govt. of India promulgated and issued National Food Security Ordinance on  5^th July’2013 to provide Food and nutritional Security in human life cycle approach by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or  incidental thereto. The Food Security Ordinance envisage right to receive foodgrains at subsidised price by persons belonging to eligible households under Targeted Public Distribution System, nutritional support to pregnant woman, lactating mother and nutritional support to children etc. Under NFSA  every identified beneficiaries is entitled to get 5kg of foodgrain per month @ Rs. 3/- Rs. 2/- & Rs.1/- for rice, wheat and Coarse grain.
                       

    As approved by the Cabinet in the meeting on 08.08.2013, the Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh had launched the NFSO’2013 in the State on 20^th Aug/2013 at Itanagar.
                       

    Later, as rectified and enacted by the Parliament and on receipt of the assent of the President of India, the Ministry of Law and Justice, GoI had notified  the National Food Security Act’2013 on 10^th September-2013.

     For the state of Arunachal Pradesh, the targetted coverage of population under the priority group (including AAY) is Rural 66.31% and Urban 51.55% as given below. The  left population is to be covered under General Household through in Tide Over allocation.
 

Sl No	District	Population as per Census 2011	Breakup of Population		Population to be covered under NFSA, 2013
			Urban	Rural	AAY & Priority Household			General Houselhold
					Urban 51.55%	Rural 66.31%	Total	District wise left out population
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Tawang	49950	5629	44321	2902	29389	32291	17659
2	West Kameng	87013	18351	68662	9460	45530	54990	32023
3	East Kameng	78413	18255	60158	9410	39891	49301	29112
4	Papumpare	53549	1317	52232	679	34635	35314	18235
5	Lower Subansiri	82839	12807	70032	6602	46438	53040	29799
6	Kurung Kumey (including Kra Daadi)	89717	2297	87420	1184	57968	59152	30565
7	Upper Subansiri	83205	13604	69601	7013	46152	53165	30040
8	West Siang (inclding Siang)	112272	24958	87314	12866	57898	70764	41508
9	East Siang	99019	27597	71422	14226	47360	61586	37433
10	Upper Siang	35289	6543	28746	3373	19061	22434	12855
11	Dibang Valley	7948	2190	5758	1129	3818	4947	3001
12	Lower Dibang Valley	53986	11380	42606	5866	28252	34118	19868
13	Lohit (including Namsai0	145538	31829	113709	16408	75400	91808	53730
14	Anjaw	21089	970	20119	500	13341	13841	7248
15	Changlang	147951	19204	128747	9900	85372	95272	52679
16	Tirap	54923	10238	44685	5278	29631	34908	20015
17	Longding	57074	10639	46435	5484	30791	36275	20799
18	Capital Complex	122836	95554	27282	49248	18091	67349	55487
Total		1382611	313362	1069249	161528	709018	870555	512056

     
    The state of Arunachal Pradesh took it as an opportunity under NFSA to prepare a new list of eligible households under NFSA by not only relying on old BPL and AAY lists. Instead the state Govt. used the opportunity to conduct surveys at the ground circle/tehsil and village levels by involving the village bodies, Panchayat, Municipals etc. The surveys were supervised directly by the Deputy Commissioners and District Food & Civil Supplies Officers at district headquarter level and by the concerned administrative officers ie Circle Officers, EAC, SDO etc at the circle or subdivision level. Schedules dates were fixed for hearing and disposal of any grievances related to the selection of eligible households under NFSA. At the Directorate level, the department continually supervised and gave impetus on covering the beneficiaries as per the targetted coverage intimated by the

            After identification of the eligible households under NFSA, the  beneficifiaries data were digitized manually as per the standard presecribed by the GoI ensuring demographic data, FPS linkage, Family members data and PLC encoding (as per RGI standard) in ration cards for upload in the state portal for transparency and social audits. For centres with Arun ePDS running, the the data enumerations were done in the centres itself.

In Arunachal Pradesh, the Director of Food & Civil Supplies allocates foodgrains to each district monthly based on the feeding strength of a district. In district, the Deputy Commissioner and DF&CSO further sub-allocates the foodgrains to the Fair Price Shops based on the actual feeding strength and as per the allocation policy of a scheme and issues the order for the same circle wise. The monthly sub-allocation of foodgrains to FPSs in districts is provided in the link below.