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State Govt’s special package for Kali Puja & Chhat

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Like last year, this year too the State Food and Supplies Department has introduced a special ration package on the occasion of Kali Puja and Chhat. Included in the list of products are edible oil, atta and sugar.

The package is available to people enlisted in the Antyodaya Anna Yojana and to those belonging to special categories, both under the National Food Security Act.

About 3 crore people will get the benefits. The same package was made available for Durga Puja too, which ran from October 9 to 23.

For the occasion of Kali Puja and Chhat, the package is being provided from October 30 to November 13.

A litre of mustard oil is available for Rs 101 and 500ml for Rs 52, while a litre of rice bran oil is available for 94 and 500ml for Rs 48.50. Five hundred gram each of sugar and atta is also available to the people, which could be bought twice during the 15-day period.

Special food packages for Jangalmahal and the Hills to continue

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The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress Government has decided that, despite the immense pressure on it on account of having to repay the huge debts accumulated by the Left Front Government, it would continue with the special food packages for the people of Jangalmahal and the Hills.

Besides rice and wheat at Rs 2 per kg, the State Government supplies more than double the amount supplied to the other regions of the state for the people of these regions – 11 kg per person per month against 5 kg in the other areas. Everyone, irrespective of economic condition, is eligible for getting subsidised rice and wheat in these two regions.

Whereas 42 lakh people in Jangalmahal are supplied with rice and wheat through the ration system (public distribution system, or PDS), in the Hills, the number is 8 lakh 75 thousand.

The five districts of Paschim Medinipur, Jhargram, Purulia, Bankura and Birbhum comprise Jangalmahal, whereas Darjeeling and Kurseong subdivisions of Darjeeling district and Kalimpong district comprise the Hills region.

The State Government also provides special packages in a few other regions which would also continue – 16 kg of rice and wheat per person per month through PDS to the Cyclone Aila-affected people in the Sundarbans and the farmers who lost land in Singur as a result of the illegal acquisition, 35 kg of rice and wheat per family through PDS to the families of tea garden workers, and 5 kg of rice and wheat per person per month for free to members of the Toto tribe in north Bengal.

জঙ্গলমহল ও পাহাড়ে ‘স্পেশাল ফুড প্যাকেজ’ চালিয়ে যাবে রাজ্য

বিপুল ভর্তুকির দায় বহন করতে হলেও জঙ্গলমহল ও পাহাড়ের ‘স্পেশাল ফুড প্যাকেজ’ চালিয়ে যাবে রাজ্য সরকার। রাজ্যের এই দু’টি এলাকায় সব বাসিন্দাকে দু’ টাকা কেজি দরে চাল-গম সরবরাহ করা হয়। শুধু তাই নয়, অন্য জায়গার তুলনায় দ্বিগুণের বেশি পরিমাণ খাদ্যসামগ্রী এখানে দেওয়া হয়।

জঙ্গলমহলে ৪২ লক্ষ মানুষকে রেশনের সস্তার চাল-গম সরবরাহ করা হয়। পাহাড়ে এই সংখ্যা ৮ লক্ষ ৭৫ হাজার। পশ্চিম মেদিনীপুর, বাঁকুড়া, বীরভূম, পুরুলিয়া এবং ঝাড়গ্রাম জেলার ৩১টি ব্লক জঙ্গলমহলের মধ্যে পড়ে। পাহাড়ের মধ্যে পড়ে দার্জিলিং জেলার দার্জিলিং এবং কার্শিয়াং মহকুমা ও কালিম্পং জেলা। জঙ্গলমহল ও পাহাড় ছাড়া কিছু বিশেষ শ্রেণির জন্য অতিরিক্ত খাদ্যসামগ্রী দেয় সরকার। সেই প্যাকেজও চলবে। সুন্দরবনের আইলা বিধ্বস্ত এলাকার সব রেশন গ্রাহকদের জন্য পরিবার পিছু মাসে ১৬ কেজি করে চাল-গম দেওয়া হয়। সম পরিমাণ খাদ্যসামগ্রী পান সিঙ্গুরের জমিহারা পরিবারগুলি। উত্তরবঙ্গের টোটো উপজাতির লোকেদের বিনামূল্যে মাসে মাথাপিছু পাঁচ কেজি করে চাল-গম দেওয়া হয়। চা বাগানের শ্রমিকদের মাসে পরিবার পিছু ৩৫ কেজি করে চাল-গম দেওয়া হয় রেশনের মাধ্যমে।

Source: Bartaman

Bengal Govt to provide ration in flood-affected areas even without cards

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The Maa, Mati, Manush Government led by Mamata Banerjee yet again stands by the people at an hour of crisis. The State Food and Supplies Department has decided to distribute ration at flood-affected areas even without cards, the minister has said. Dealers who do not follow this decision will be penalised.

The State Government is also taking initiatives to open temporary ration shops in the flood-affected areas. Consumers unable to produce their cards are being allowed to collect ration by registering their names in the books.

The Food and Supplies Department will also ensure seamless supply of rice and wheat to the relief camps.

 

কার্ড না আনলেও মিলবে রেশন, বন্যাদুর্গতদের পাশে খাদ্য দপ্তর

বন্যার জন্য কোনও রেশন গ্রাহক কার্ড আনতে না পারলেও তাঁকে খাদ্যশস্য দিতে বলা হয়েছে। এই সব সিদ্ধান্ত রেশন ডিলাররা না মানলে, তাদের বিরুদ্ধে ব্যবস্থা নেওয়া হবে বলে জানিয়েছেন খাদ্যমন্ত্রী।

এর পাশাপাশি বন্যা কবলিত এলাকায় অস্থায়ী রেশন দোকান খোলার জন্য নির্দেশ দিল খাদ্য দপ্তর। দুর্গত মানুষজন রেশন কার্ড দেখাতে না পারলেও খাতায় রেজিস্ট্রি করে তাঁদের চাল-গম দিচ্ছে খাদ্য দপ্তর।

ত্রাণ শিবিরে চাল-গম জোগান অব্যাহত রাখতে বদ্ধপরিকর খাদ্য দপ্তর।

খাদ্যমন্ত্রী জানিয়েছেন, দুর্গত এলাকার মানুষজন যাতে খাদ্যের সংকটে না পড়ে, তার জন্য অস্থায়ী রেশন দোকান খোলার সিদ্ধান্ত নেওয়া হয়েছে। এর আগে এই ধরনের উদ্যোগ নেওয়া হয়নি। বন্যায় জল জমায় অনেক জায়গাতেই রেশন দোকান বন্ধ হয়ে গিয়েছে। এতে বন্যাদুর্গতদের দুর্ভোগ আরও বেড়েছে। এই পরিস্থিতিতে কোনও রাস্তার উপর বা উঁচু জায়গায় অস্থায়ী শিবির খুলে রেশন দোকান চালাতে বলা হয়েছে।

Seven crore people in Bengal to receive subsidised foodgrains

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Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal on Friday decided to start a new food security scheme to provide over three crore beneficiaries foodgrains at Rs 2 per kg, taking to seven crore the number of people getting subsidised food.

“Currently our government gives rice at Rs 2 per kg to 3.33 crore people in the state. We are starting a new scheme for food security from January 27.

“Three crore additional people will be included in this system and will get wheat and rice at Rs 2 per kg,” Banerjee said at the state secretariat Nabanna after a cabinet meeting.

She also said an additional 70 lakh people have filled up forms to get subsidised food and will be getting cereals at half the market price.

Altogether around seven crore people will be entitled to benefits of the state government’s food security schemes, she said.

The cabinet also adopted a rehabilitation package for tea garden workers in northern West Bengal as well as for people living in Jangalmahal – the Left Wing Extremism affected areas of the state.

WB Govt sets up six ration shops outside closed tea gardens

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The State Food Department has set up six ration shops outside the gates of five closed tea gardens, so that the tea garden workers, along with the people living in the fringe areas of those five closed tea gardens, can get the benefit of procuring ration from those shops.

State Food Minister Jyotipriya Mullick said in the Assembly lobby that these ration shops have been set up by the Food Department, each at a cost of Rs 6.24 lakh. The minister said that ration shops have been set up outside Red Bank, Surendranagar, Dekhlapara, Dalmore and Kathalguritea tea gardens, with two being set up outside Kathalguri.

The Minister alleged that during the Left Front tenure, tea garden managers were given charge of ration shops and “after we came to power we found out that these managers most of the time failed to distribute ration evenly among the closed tea garden workers, which led to starvation.”

The Minister further said that his department has chosen some efficient self-help groups to run these ration shops and that these groups are now effectively running the ration shops outside these closed tea gardens.

At present, 1.03 lakh workers, their family members and those living adjacent to these closed tea gardens are the beneficiaries of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s special package of rice at Rs 2 per kg. He said Rs 1,080 crore is being spent on the special package and a total of 3.28 lakh people are the beneficiaries of this package.

 

Food Security scheme to be implemented all over Bengal by August 2015

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The West Bengal Government is taking initiative to start Food Security schemes all over the State by the coming August. The new schemes have already been implemented South Dinajpur in April and Coochbehar in May.

This month, Uttar Dinajpur will be brought under this scheme and by July, it will be implemented in Nadia, Maldah, Jalpaiguri, Howrah and Hooghly.

Through this scheme, around 6.01 crore people in the State, below poverty line, will get rice at Rs 2/kg.

Incidentally, the West Bengal Government now pay subsidy to provide rice at Rs 2/kg to 3.28 crore people in the State.

Since, the scheme will be operated through ration shops, those will be also under strict vigil and will not be able to do any illegal selling of stocks.

The State Government had made a survey last year and the names of the beneficiaries are being listed according to the survey report. The State Government will also provide digital ration cards to the people who will be under this scheme.

The names of the people enlisted under this scheme are also being put up in the website of the state Food Department for transparency.

Digitised ration cards in Bengal from Poila Boishakh

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WB Government takes a new leap in e-governance as it is all set to introduce online application of Ration Cards. The new software is already in its place, and after necessary cabinet clearance and test runs it will be implemented from the first day of the Bengali New Year.

Once the application is done through prescribed online form, an inspector will visit for physical verification within 24 hours and within 3 days Aadhaar linked digital ration card will be issued.

West Bengal Government has already undertaken the initiative of digitalising of more than 9 crore ration card. Digitalisation of ration cards will also help to detect fake cards.

Greater transparency is implemented in the PDS system. Digitalisation of ration card will help the government to keep an eye on how the benefits of PDS system have reached to the common people and thus make necessary police decisions.