Punjab all set to launch new atta-dal scheme- DS Grewal
Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, February 7, 2014: Punjab was all set to launch the new Atta-Dal scheme for providing food/nutritional security to its residents especially belonging to the economically weaker sections and the state...
Chandigarh, February 7, 2014: Punjab was all set to launch the new Atta-Dal scheme for providing food/nutritional security to its residents especially belonging to the economically weaker sections and the state government has already allocated Rs 400 crore for its implementation in the current fiscal.
Disclosing this here today, Secretary Food and Civil Supplies DS Grewal said that this flagship scheme of the state government has been in place since August 2007 and was running smoothly. Since it was an ongoing scheme, the model code of conduct for the ensuing Parliamentary elections would have no bearing on it at all, said Grewal.
The Secretary further said that the scheme entailed providing food grains as well as Dal to the eligible beneficiaries thereby ensuring a complete meal for them whereas majority of schemes being run by the other states were merely providing grains. Dwelling on the new Atta Dal scheme, Grewal pointed out that it was being implemented in two phases. Phase I would include all the existing blue card beneficiaries as well as all BPL and AAY families based on survey of 2002. These beneficiaries would get their allocations w.e.f. from December, 2013 onwards, while the phase II beneficiaries, which were currently being identified by the respective Deputy Commissioners across the state would get their entitlement from Feb 1, 2014 onwards. The identification exercise was near completion, he added.
In its endeavour to fine tune this existing scheme, the packaging of food grains was on the anvil, which would ensure portability of food grains for consumers besides plugging the leakages and diversion, he added. //punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news, world news,