Distribution of Ration Card inPilot Phase - Bhubaneswar MunicipalityCorporation (BMC)Hon’ble Chief Minister giving awaythe first Ration Card under NFSA in Ward No. 5 of BMC

National FoodSecurity Act 2013& Identification ofPDS beneficiariesof Odisha

National Food Security Act 2013 (NFSA) provides for food & nutritionalsecurity in human life cycle approach by ensuring access to adequate quantityand quality of food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.Identification of beneficiaries for Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS)is the first step for implementing NFSA in states.

TPDS computerization has been taken up in the State as a National PlanScheme to address various challenges of the current system such as leakages,diversion of food grains in the supply chain, fake and bogus ration cards,inclusion and exclusion errors, lack of transparency, weak grievance redressaland social audit mechanism. The National Plan Scheme has two components.

Architecture of TPDS Transformation in Odisha

Component I• Digitization of ration card and beneficiary databases.• Automation of supply chain management system.• Setting up a transparency portal and grievance redressal mechanisms.

Component II• Automation of Fair Price Shop transactions.

Identification ofEligible Householdsand Issuance ofRation Cardsunder NFSA

• Identification of PDS beneficiaries under NFSA in Odisha has beenlinked to the economic well-being of families and carried out onprinciple of exclusion. Nine exclusion criteria have been notifiedby Government of Odisha.

• Families not falling under the scope of approved exclusion criteriawere asked to apply through a pre-designed application form atRegistration Centers to get a Ration Card. The application formswith relevant documents were digitized with reference to NPR(National Population Register) ID wherever available in the CentralDigitization Centre located at District level to create Applicantdatabase. The Applicant database de-duplicated with respect to samename string, Aadhaar Number, EPIC Number and NPR TINNumber fetched the list of duplicate individuals and families.Similarly the Socio Economic Cast Census (SECC) exclusioncriteria relevant to NFSA was superimposed over the applicantdatabase to identify Suspect Lists.

• This consolidated applicant database was compared with anintegrated National Population Register (NPR) database createdby mapping external Government databases pertaining to exclusioncriteria with the NPR database. This exercise identified ineligiblefamilies. The list of duplicate and suspect families were physicallyverified and decided as to whether they would be retained or deleted.The list of eligible applicants were reviewed at Block/Urban bodiesand in the Gram/Ward Sabha. The final list of PDS beneficiarieshas been hosted in www.foododisha.in and www.pdsodisha.gov.in.

• Laminated bar-coded Ration Cards are being issued to thebeneficiaries.

• There will be a Ration Card database Management System (RCMS)to consider request for new Ration Card for the eligible leftoutfamilies and modification (additions, deletions, mutations, etc.) inthe existing Ration Card on account of shifting of residence, birthor death, change in category of beneficiary, corrections in the detailsmentioned in the card or any other such reason.

• The State Government shall maintain the ration card data in thedigitized database and ensure that issue of a new ration card andmodification in the existing card is undertaken through the softwareprogramme so that the database is automatically updated.

• The State Government would prescribe the procedure for receivingthe application through on-line mechanism including the use ofe-service centres, like Jana Seva Kendra or CSCs.

• The designated officials would issue a Ration Card to an eligibleapplicant within a reasonable time of the receipt of application afternecessary checks and verification.

• The details of Ration Cards and time frame for delivery of serviceswould be notified by the State Government and displayed in thepublic domain including the State web portal.

• There would be endeavors to eliminate ineligible Ration Cards oncontinuous basis.

Transparency Portal / www.foododisha.in

Exclusion Criteria:Any family covered under any of the nine exclusion criteria arenot eligible for being a beneficiary under NFSA 2013 in Odisha

Inclusion (6) andExclusion Criteria (9)for Identification ofBeneficiaries

Inclusion Criteria:

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No. 2069, CUTTACK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2014 / MARGASIRA 14, 1936

EXTRAORDINARYPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

FOOD SUPPLIES & CONSUMER WELFARE DEPARTMENTNOTIFICATION

The 17th July, 2014

The Odisha

An advertisement on the occasion of launchof distribution of new Ration Cardson 2nd October 2015.

1 Household without shelter.2 Household with destitute who is living on alms.3 All households of Primitive Tribal Groups.4 Household having a widow pension holder, if not otherwise

ineligible as per the nine exclusion criteria.5 A person with disabilities of 40% or more.6 Any transgender person.

1 Household owning motorized three wheeler (two or more) / afour wheeler / a heavy vehicle / a trawler / motor boats (twoor more).

2 Household owning mechanized agricultural equipment suchas Tractors or Harvesters.

3 Household with any member who is a regular employee -gazetted or non-gazetted - of Central Government, StateGovernment, Public Sector Undertakings, Government aidedautonomous bodies and local bodies. This will excludeincentive and other honorarium based workers.

4 Household with any member in the family earning more thanRs.10,000/- per month in the rural and Rs.15,000/- per monthfor urban areas.

5 Pensioners with monthly income of more than Rs.10,000/-per month in rural areas and Rs.15,000/- per month in urbanareas.

6 Household with enterprises (other than micro-enterprises)registered with the Government for manufacturing andservices.

7 Household paying Income Tax or Professional Tax.8 Household having domestic electric connection with a load of

2 KW or more and consuming an average of 300 units ofenergy (KWH) per month.

9 Household with three or more rooms with pucca walls andpucca roof.

Ceiling of PDSBeneficiariesunder NFSA(Rural + Urban)

TPDS under NFSA covers 67% of the population of the country (75% ruraland 50% urban population) with a uniform entitlement of 5 kg of food grainsper person per month @ Rs. 3/-, Rs. 2/-, Re. 1/- per kg for rice, wheat andcoarse grain respectively (Priority Households). Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY)household’s entitlements at 35 kgs of food grain per household per month tocontinue as before.

Government of India has fixed the number of beneficiaries under NFSA at 82.17% of rural population and55.77% of urban population for Odisha. The ceiling of PDS beneficiaries in Odisha has been fixed at 326.41Lakh based on above formula.

Considering the fact that all district in the state are not equal in terms of development, the percentage of SC & STconcentration in the district has been taken as weightage for determination of limits of NFSA for rural and urbanareas of Odisha. District with less than 30 percentage of SC & ST population as per Census 2011 have been givena limit equal to 95 percentage of target population as per Government of India norm of 82.17 percentages for ruralarea and 55.77 percentages for urban areas. Similarly, for districts having more than 50% SC & ST population,105% of the target population (as per GoI formula) has been taken. For rest districts, the target population as perGoI norm has been kept intact. The district-wise limit for NFSA beneficiaries are as under:

SlNo District

% ofSC/ST

Population

Population asper 2011Census

Total population tobe covered underNFSA as per GoI

norms

Percentage ofmultiplicationdue to SC / ST

%age

TargetBeneficiaries to

be coveredunder NFSA

1 Angul 33 1273821 992171 100 9921712 Balasore 32 2320529 1839909 100 18399093 Baragarh 39 1481255 1177518 100 11775184 Bhadrak 24 1506337 1188696 95 1129265 Bolangir 39 1648997 1302872 100 13028726 Boudh 36 441162 357111 100 3571117 Cuttack 23 2624470 1962211 95 18641008 Deogarh 52 312520 250887 105 2634319 Dhenkanal 33 1192811 949111 100 94911110 Gajapati 61 577817 456136 105 47894311 Ganjam 23 3529031 2697053 95 256220012 Jagatsinghpur 22 1136971 903630 95 85844913 Jajpur 32 1827192 1465738 100 146573814 Jharsuguda 49 579505 415152 100 41515215 Kalahandi 47 1576869 1263509 100 126350916 Kandhamal 69 733110 583315 105 61248117 Kendrapara 22 1440361 1161492 95 110341718 Keonjhar 57 1801733 1413676 105 148436019 Khordha 18 2251673 1563940 95 148574320 Koraput 65 1379647 1073947 105 112764521 Malkangiri 80 613192 490784 105 51532422 Mayurbhanj 66 2519738 2019544 105 212052123 Nawarangpur 70 1220946 980118 105 102912424 Nayagarh 20 962789 770073 95 73156925 Nuapada 47 610382 492561 100 49256126 Puri 20 1698730 1325905 95 125961027 Rayagada 70 967911 756533 105 79436028 Sambalpur 53 1041099 774134 105 81284129 Sonepur 35 610183 488203 100 48820330 Sundergarh 60 2093437 1525320 105 1601586

Overall 41974218 32641250 32578820

Meeting of State Food Ministers for NFSAImplementation at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhion 7th July 2015.

Meeting of Sri Sanjay Kumar Das Burma,Minister, Food Supplies & Consumer WelfareOdisha with Sri Ram Vilas Paswan, Hon’bleMinister of Consumer Affairs, Food and PublicDistribution, Government of India.