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Book's First Pageri lt re and ood ana ement 8.49 Public Distribution by end-December 2013. (v) The Act provisions state and district level India’s most ambitious and world’s largest social redressal mechanism with designated welfare programme provides legal right to about 82 officers. The states will be allowed to crore people for subsidised foodgrains—a historic use the existing machinery for District initiative towards ensuring food and nutritional Grievance Redressal Officer (DGRO), security. Major highlights of the programme are State Food Commission, if they so desire, as given below: to save expenditure on establishment of new redressal set up. It also provides for (i) It will cover upto 75 per cent rural and penalty on public servants or authority, if 50 per cent urban population (around found guilty of failing to comply with the two thirds of the total popultion) with relief recommended by the DGRO. uniform entitlement of 5 kg foodgrains (vi) Provisions have also been made per month at highly subsidised prices for disclosure of records relating to of Rs. 3, Rs. 2 and Rs. 1 per kg for rice, PDS, social audits and setting up of wheat and coarse grains, respectively. The Vigilance Committees in order to ensure poorest of poor households continue to transparency and accountability. receive 35 kg foodgrains per household The work of identification of eligible per month under the Antyodaya Anna households is left to the states/UTs, which may Yojna at the same subsidised prices. frame their own criteria or use Social Economic (ii) It provisions for special focus on nutritional and Caste Census (SECC) data, if they so desire. support to women and children—pregnant The central government will provide funds to women and lactating mothers, besides states/UTs in case of short supply of food grains being entitled to nutritious meals as per from the central pool. In case of non-supply the prescribed nutritional norms will also of food grains or meals to entitled persons, the receive maternity benefit of at least of concerned state/UT governments will be required Rs. 6,000. Children in the age group of to provide such food security allowance as may 6 months to 14 years will be entitled to be prescribed by the central government to the take home ration or hot cooked food as beneficiaries. In order to address the concern of the per prescribed nutritional norms. states regarding additional financial burden, The (iii) Eldest woman of eighteen years of age or central government will provide assistance to the above will be head of the household for states towards cost of intra-state transportation, issue of ration card, and if not available, handling of foodgrains and FPS dealers’ margin, the eldest male member is to be the head for which norms will be developed. This will ensure of the household. timely transportation and efficient handling of (iv) For effective implementation, the Act foodgrains. also contains provisions for reforms While enacting the Act, the Ministry in PDS through doorstep delivery of estimated an annual foodgrains requirement of foodgrains, application of information 61.23 MT, which will accrue estimated food and communication technology (ICT) subsidy of Rs.1,24,724 crore. Meanwhile, a High including end-to-end computerisation, Level Committee (headed by Shanta Kumar), by leveraging ‘Aadhaar’ for identification early 2015, suggested the Government of India of beneficiaries, diversification of to revise the covergare population under the Act commodities under TPDS, etc. from 67 to 40 per cent. The recommendation was