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AP turns a role model in rice distribution: Paritala Sunitha
Civil supplies Minister Prathipati Pulla Rao said on Monday the State and Central Governments are spending Rs.630 crore every year to supply rice to the white ration card holders through the Public Distribution System. He said the Government is trying to ensure food security by distributing nutrition food to the pregnant women and lactating mothers. Pullarao participated in the one- day workshop
One-day workshop on Food Security Act held
Vijayawada: Civil supplies Minister Prathipati Pulla Rao said on Monday the State and Central Governments are spending Rs.630 crore every year to supply rice to the white ration card holders through the Public Distribution System. He said the Government is trying to ensure food security by distributing nutrition food to the pregnant women and lactating mothers.
Pullarao participated in the one- day workshop conducted on National Food Security Act 2013 and The Andhra Pradesh Food Security Rules 2013 organised by Department of Civil supplies in a hotel on Monday.
Addressing the gathering, Prathipati Pullarao said the Government is using modern technology to ensure supply of rice through the fair price shops. He said efforts were on to transform the fair price shops as the mini shopping malls with various products.
He said 750 employees are working in real time governance to verify the functioning of the Government machinery and to get feedback on the services of the Government to the people.
Minister for women development and child welfare Paritala Sunitha said Andhra Pradesh has become a role model for rice distribution by implementing e-pose system. She asked the officials to give directives to the dealers to give subsidy on the gas supplied by civil supplies department to the Anganwadi centres.
Paritala Sunita said the Anganwadi centres are not getting subsidy because the Government has not given Aadhaar numbers. She further said instructions will be given to the officials to give ID number to each Anganwadi centre so that the centres can get gas subsidy in future.
She asked the commissioner of women and child welfare department and director of civil supplies department to supply adequate quality food materials to the Anganwadi centre to ensure feeding of nutritional food to women.
Andhra Pradesh State Food commission chairman J R Pushpa Raj said National Food Act will be very useful to the people because it gives food security to the common people. Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Civil supplies department, B Rajasekhar has underlined the need to check irregularities in implementation of schemes. Joint Collectors, Civil supply officers and officials from 13 districts participated in the one day Workshop.
