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NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY ACT, 2013
(in Arunachal Pradesh) |
Govt. of India promulgated and issued National
Food Security Ordinance on 5th 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 20th 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 10th September-2013.
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1. Identification of Eligible Households
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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
GoI.
After the
state launched the act at ordinance stage itself, the state Govt.
prepared and notified the Eligibility/Non-Eligibility criteria for
selection of households under the NFSA.
Eligibility Criteria Notifications
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2. Digitization of NFSA Beneficiaries
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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.
>> District Wise digitized list of NFSA Beneficiaries in Arunachal Pradesh
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3. Grievance Redressal
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Under section 15 of the NFSA, the act envisions strong
grievance redressal at district and state levels by appointing/designating
District Grievance Redressal Officers (DGROs) and by constituting the State
Food Commission respectively.
The state designated Addl. Deputy Commissioners/SDO (Sadar) of the districts as
DGROs and inetrnal grievance redressal mechanism set up in districts. Notification
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The state has proposed the existing The State Women Commission to additionally
function as the State Food Commision for the NFSA in the state pending final
approval from the Govt.
The state Nodal Officer for grievance redressal has also been designated and
notified. Notification
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For Grievance Redressal, the Toll Free No. 1967 has been made operational to
enble the citizens to register and query status of grievances.
Notification >>
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>>GRIEVANCE REGISTRATION
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4. Online Allocation |
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.
>>District wise Monthly Sub-Allocation of Foodgrains
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