The criteria for bringing people under the National Food Security Ordinance, proposed to be implemented in Haryana from August 20, has been worked out to extend its ambit to large swathes of both rural and urban populace, ranging from manual labourer in the rural hinterland to households earning less than Rs 2 lakh per annum in urban and rural areas.
Haryana Food and Supplies Department has already framed the criteria for identification of eligible households. Danpat Singh, Principal Secretary, Haryana Food and Supplies Department, said that according to the criteria for rural areas, the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households, Central Below Poverty line (CBPl) and State Below Poverty line (SBPl) households, homeless households, households where the head of family is a disabled person, households of landless agricultural laborers and households of small and marginal farmers owning land up to five acres would be automatically covered under priority households.
Similarly, households headed by a widow or single woman who is unmarried or separated or deserted and occupationally vulnerable households where the main source of income is from cultivation, manual casual labour, part-time or full-time domestic service, foraging, rag-picking, non-agricultural own account enterprise and begging, charity or alms collection would also be automatically covered under priority households.
He said that in rural areas, out of the identified eligiblehouseholds income tax payers, VAT assesses registered under Haryana VAT Act 2003, Service Tax payers, professional tax payers, any household having more than two hectares of land of any type, any household owning motorised four-wheeler, any household which owns or operates an enterprise registered with the government, would be excluded as per criteria.
Similarly, any household which owns mechanised four-wheeler agricultural equipment, all employees other than contractual or work charged or daily wager of Union Government, state governments and Union Territories or its boards, corporations, enterprises, undertakings, municipal corporations, municipal councils, municipal committees, improvement trusts and any household having annual family income of more than two lakh from all the sources would also be excluded as per criteria.
The employees other than contractual, work-charged or daily wager of Union Government, State Governments and UTs or its boards, corporations, enterprises, undertakings, municipal corporations, municipal councils, municipal committees or Improvement Trusts and any household having annual family income of more than Rs 2 lakh from all sources would be excluded as per criteria.