Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that free ration will be given to all the public distribution system beneficiaries of the State till the month of November by the Central Government. Along with this, the State Government will also provide fair price ration at Rs 1 per kg. Each member of the beneficiary family will get 5 kg free ration and 5 kg ration at the cost of Re 1 per kg. This ration will be given to the beneficiaries in 10 kg bags.
Chouhan said that 4.81 crore beneficiaries of the state would be benefitted through the scheme. He gave instructions to the officers for proper implementation of the scheme.
Chouhan was taking a meeting regarding Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana at Mantralaya today. Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Minister Bisahulal Singh, Cooperation, Public Service Management Minister Arvind Singh Bhadoria, Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, Principal Secretary Agriculture Ajit Kesari and others were present in the meeting.
Under the Chief Minister Annapurna Yojna, 5 kg of food grains wheat/rice per person per month are provided at Re 1 per kg. Along with this, one kg of salt and one kg of fair price sugar are also given. Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, 5 kg of free food grains will be provided per member till November. In this way, 10 kg of food grains will be given per member every month till November.
There are a total of 25,423 fair price shops in the state, 1.13 crore eligible families and 4.81 crore beneficiaries. Monthly allocation of food grains is 2.62 lakh metric tonnes, monthly allocation of sugar is 1450 metric tonnes and monthly allocation of salt is 11,326 metric tonnes.