Provide subsidized food grains to all eligible disabled persons under NFSA: Centre to States

New Delhi: Secretary Department of Food and Public Distribution has sent letters to Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories requesting them to ensure that all eligible disabled persons are included under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013.

The Chief Secretaries have been requested to personally intervene in the matter and direct the concerned Departments and especially District Administrations to ensure that appropriate mechanism is put in place. The letter urged that whole machinery is mobilised in mission mode for compliance of directions made by the Department of Food and Public Distribution to States Governments .

The Department of Food & Public Distribution advised all States and UTs to ensure that all disabled persons, who are eligible as per identification criteria of beneficiaries under NFSA, are covered under the National Food Security Act 2013 and they get their entitled quota of food grains under NFSA & PMGKAY as per provisions of the Act.

The National Food Security Act mandates that the Central Government may from time to time give directions to the State Governments for effective implementation of the provisions of the Act.