‘Indira food kit’
News –
- ‘Indira food kit’ to replace 5 kg rice under Anna Bhagya scheme
- It will benefit about 4.48 crore population holding below poverty line cards and will include toor dal, oil, sugar and salt
‘Indira food kit’
- Objective – The scheme aims to ensure better nutrition, transparency, and effective resource utilization.
- Food covered : The Indira Food Kit contains nutritious items: toor dal, moong dal, sugar, salt, and cooking oil,
- Distribution – It is based on family size half a kg for 1-2 member families, 1 kg for 3-4 members, and 1.5 kg for families of 5 or more.
- Beneficiaries :The scheme covers about 26 crore ration cardholder families, impacting around 4.48 crore beneficiaries.
- Benefits : The change is intended to reduce misuse, smuggling, and illegal diversion of rice under the previous scheme.
- The government expects to save approximately Rs 300 crore annually by implementing the kit instead of rice.
- The kit is distributed via fair price shops using BPL ration cards under the Public Distribution System.
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