Rice cardholders’ allocation to be doubled

The Tamil Nadu authorities has determined to give an enhanced entitlement of foodgrains to all rice-drawing ration cardholders in June and July.

The determination follows the Centre’s initiative to double the entitlement of foodgrains to the precedence family (PHH) playing cards for 2 months.

No discrimination

There are about 2.07 crore rice-drawing playing cards within the State, of which round 1.08 crore come beneath the class of PHH playing cards. The Centre’s scheme of concession leaves out the remaining 99 lakh non-priority family (NPHH) playing cards. This forces the State authorities to be certain that there is no such thing as a discrimination in opposition to the NPHH cardholders, whereas searching for to mitigate the impression of the COVID-19 lockdown.

For offering the extra entitlement, the State will procure about 1.53 lakh tonnes of foodgrains a month from the Food Corporation of India at ₹22.5 a kg. This entails an extra dedication of round ₹688 crore, which has been sanctioned by the federal government via an order of the Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department issued final week.

Under the Centre’s scheme, the extra foodgrains are to be given to PHH cardholders in May and June.

Consequently, over and above the traditional quota, the Centre has allotted to Tamil Nadu about 3.65 lakh tonnes of foodgrains, together with almost 36,470 tonnes of wheat.

But the distribution of extra foodgrains couldn’t start within the State this month for a number of causes, together with the belief of workplace by a brand new Council of Ministers within the first week of May.

As of now, there is no such thing as a phrase whether or not the State will even present one kg of sugar and tur dal every, and one kg of edible oil, all free, for just a few months, because it did final yr.