Doorstep ration delivery scheme will not have any identify: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday urged the Centre to permit the Aam Aadmi Party’s doorstep ration delivery scheme within the nationwide capital. Addressing the media right here, Kejriwal stated that the doorstep ration delivery scheme will not have any identify and that the town authorities will not take any credit score for it.
“Ready to accept all conditions of Centre but will not allow any obstructions,” he stated, including that goal is to neutralise the mafia that operates within the metropolis.
Earlier on Friday, 5 days earlier than the launch of the doorstep ration delivery scheme by Kejriwal, the Centre requested the Delhi authorities not to implement it, saying it’s “not permissible” to make use of subsidised foodgrain allotted underneath the nationwide Food Security Act for the challenge. Kejriwal was scheduled to launch the scheme with doorstep delivery of ration to 100 households in northeast Delhi’s Seemapuri on March 25.
In a letter written to the Delhi authorities on Friday, Joint Secretary within the Union Food Ministry S Jagannathan stated the subsidised foodgrains being allotted by the central authorities for distribution underneath the NFSA “cannot be used for the operationalisation of any state specific/other scheme under different name/nomenclature other than NFSA as the same is not permissible under the Act”.
However, the central authorities will have no objection if the Delhi authorities comes out with a separate scheme with out mixing the weather of the NFSA, it stated. Under the NFSA, handed by Parliament in 2013, the central authorities gives foodgrains to states for distribution to 81.35 crore individuals by way of the PDS at a extremely subsidised fee of Rs 1-3 per kg. As per the ministry’s information, about 41.33 lakh tonnes of foodgrains have been allotted underneath the NFSA to Delhi authorities until February of the 2020-21 fiscal for distribution by way of PDS. Out of which, offtake has been 40.97 lakh tonnes. In the nationwide capital, there are round 72 lakh beneficiaries of the PDS.
Back in June 2018, Kejriwal alongside along with his cupboard ministers had staged a sit-in on the LG workplace, demanding approval of doorstep delivery of ration within the metropolis. In his Republic Day tackle this 12 months, Kejriwal had termed the initiative as a revolutionary step in altering the town’s public distribution system (PDS). The modalities of the scheme had additionally been notified by the Delhi authorities final month.
