Nagaland receives INR 30.74 crore for food grain movement
An amount of INR 30.74 crore was released to Nagaland in 2024-25 under the scheme of “Assistance to state agencies for intra-state movement of food grains and FPS dealers’ margin under NFSA” by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
- State's ration card
database cleansed of 32,461 duplicate entries
- KOHIMA — An
amount of INR 30.74 crore was released to Nagaland in 2024-25 under the scheme
of “Assistance to state agencies for intra-state movement of food grains and
FPS dealers’ margin under NFSA” by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution.
- This was informed by the Union Minister for Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Pralhad Joshi, in response to a starred
question in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
- The amount of funds released by central government to
Nagaland state under the scheme during the last five years shows that INR 15.63
crore was released to the state in 2020-21, INR 8.15 crore in 2021-22, INR
61.06 crore in 2022-23, INR 31.42 crore in 2023-24 and INR 30.74 crore in
2024-25.
- The minister also updated that a total of 11.05 lakh
beneficiaries from Nagaland have been provided with assistance under the Public
Distribution System (PDS) as of February 28, 2025.
- He stated that the department deals with the release of food
subsidies to states, which have adopted Decentralised Procurement Operation
(DCP), and to the Food Corporation of India (FCI).
- He informed that the states are allocated food grains at
subsidised rates for distribution to the targeted beneficiaries of various
central schemes, including that of AAY, PHII, PM Poshan, WNBP, SAB, and others
under the National Food Security Act and other welfare schemes.
- The difference between economic cost and Central Issue Price
(CIP), at which food grains are issued, is reimbursed as food subsidy.
- Funds are also released to FCI for procurement of food
grains, storage, and transportation, as well as maintenance of buffer stocks,
he informed.
- Further, Joshi stated that as an outcome of the use of
technology in TPDS operations—which is digitisation of ration cards and
beneficiary databases, Aadhaar seeding, de-duplication process, identification
of duplicates, ineligible records, deaths, and permanent migration of
beneficiaries—the country has been able to weed out approximately 2.19 crore
ration cards between 2019 and 2024 in order to achieve rightful targeting.
