The allocation was done by the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department under PDS.
As per the order, the quota for various districts are as follows–Bilaspur district 10,000 quintal, Janjgir-Chapa district 9,000 quintal, Raigarh district 7,000 quintal, Rajnandgaon district 7,000 quintal, Raipur 7,482 quintal, Durg district 7,000 quintal , Balodabazar-Batapara district 6,991 quintal, Mahasamund district 5,991 quintal, Korba district 5,205 quintal, Sarguja district 4,955 quintal, Bemetara district 4,695 quintal, South Bastar (Dantewada) 1,418 quintal, Sukma district 1, 366 quintal, Bijapur district 1,289 quintal, and Narayanpur district 630 quintal, has been distributed.
The State Government had been distributing 2.60 lakh tonne food grains and 15,000 kilo litre kerosene oil under PDS.
About 11,077 fair price shops are currently in operation under the Public Distribution System in the State .The gram panchayats, co-operative committees and women’s groups are operating the fair price shops
About 90 per cent of the citizens domiciled in Chhattisgarh are now being provided with food and nutrition security, claim officials.
They also claimed that Chhattisgarh is the first State to give ‘Right-to-Food’ to its people and make it into a law.
Apart from this, Chhattisgarh is a ‘Model State’ in Public Distribution System (PDS), which is transparent and ration are provided on schedule, officials stated.
This apart, landless labour families, small farmers upto five acres of land, unorganised labour like-barbers, shoe-makers, carpenters, washermen, rickshaw-pullers families, building construction labour-coolies, and other menial workers, are included in the priority list under the Act.
The Chhattisgarh Public Distribution System under Antyodaya and Priority families schemes provides 35 kg food grains at Re 1 per kg. Since June 2014 single member category ration card-holders under destitute segment are provided 10 kg food grains free of cost.
The State Government keeping in view nutrition security is providing -grams, pulses, sugar and Iodised salt. Antyodaya and Priority families get two kg salt free of cost, two kg grams at Rs 5 per kilo in Notified areas.
In non-Notified areas two kg pulses at the rate of Rs 10 and one kg sugar at Rs 13 are distributed. Under the Food and Nutrition Security Act, hostels, ashrams, anganwadis, are provided with subsidized food grains. About Rs 3844.32 crore is allocated in fiscal 2014-15 for the scheme.
The State is spending Rs 4,640 crore per year on the PDS scheme. ‘Meri Marji’ scheme was started in March 2012 in which consumers can buy rations from the shops of their choice under the Core PDS system. It is in operation in eight cities-Raipur, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund,Raigarh, Ambikapur, Korba and Chirimiri-in 565 fair price shops.
About Rs 1.75 crore is allocated in current fiscal 2014-15 to implement Core PDS in 290 fair price shops. The ration shop owners are answerable to the consumers under the scheme. Chhattisgarh Core Public distribution System not only won many national awards but also was hailed at the national-level.
Under the Gram Distribution Scheme for BPl families, State Government has allotted 51,453 quintals of grams for 21 districts of state this month.
Food, Civil Supply and Consumer Protection Department has allotted this stock under Public Distribution System. Under this scheme, Antyoday and Priority ration cardholder families are provided 2 kg of grams every month at Rs 10 per kg.
As per the allotment orders, 5205 quintals of grams have been allotted for Korba district, 4955 quintals for Sarguja district, 4461 quintals for Bastar district, 4404 quintals for Jashpur district, 3868 quintals for Surajpur district, 3623 quintals for Raipur district, 3351 quintals for North Bastar (Kanker) district, 3318 quintals for Balrampur district, 3239 quintals for Bilaspur district, 3307 quintals for Koriya district, 2558 quintals for Kondagaon district, 1974 quintals for Gariaband district, 1418 quintals for South Bastar (Dantewada) district, 1366 quintals for Sukma district, 1289 quintals for Bijapur district, 1286 quintals for Rajnandgaon district, 881 quintals for Dhamtari district, 644 quintals for Balod district, 575 quintals for Narayanpur district, 60 kg for Mungeli district and 50 kg of grams have been allotted for Mahasamund district.