The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today informed that in pursuance to the economic measures announced by the Government under the ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat Package’ in May 2020, the Department had allocated 8 LMT foodgrains to all States/UTs under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Scheme (ANBS) for free of cost distribution to the migrants/stranded migrant persons and those neither covered under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) nor under any State PDS scheme, at the scale of 5 kg per person per month for a period of 2 months of May and June 2020. All States/UTs had collectively estimated a total of about 2.8 Crore such needy persons and had lifted a total of about 6.4 LMT foodgrains from the FCI Depots/Central Stocks. Further, States/UTs (including Tamil Nadu) reported a total distribution of about 2.74 LMT foodgrains, covering about 2.74 Crore persons in the country, for the period of two months of May and June 2020. State/UT wise total quantity of foodgrains distributed under the ANBS is at Annexure-I.

            The balance undistributed foodgrains of ANBS available with States/UTs were subsequently adjusted/subsumed under the regular monthly NFSA lifting and distribution of the States/UTs. A statement showing State/UT wise quantity of such undistributed/adjusted foodgrains is at Annexure-II.

            Under the ANBS, free of cost foodgrains were distributed to all migrants / stranded migrants and those without ration cards, that is, neither covered under NFSA nor under any other State PDS scheme and the States/UTs were given the responsibility of identifying eligible needy persons in the respective jurisdictions.

            No Sir. Nearly 2.74 crore out of the estimated 2.8 crore migrants/ stranded migrant persons (about 98%) were provided free of cost foodgrain under the ANBS.

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Annexure-I

 

 

State/UT wise statement showing total quantity of foodgrains distributed under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Scheme (ANBS), including Tamil Nadu:

 

Sl.	State/UT	Foodgrains distributed by States/UTs under ANBS (in MTs)
1	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	60
2	Andhra Pradesh	7
3	Arunachal Pradesh	799
4	Assam	15,712
5	Bihar	86,449
6	Chandigarh	146
7	Chhattisgarh	1,964
8	Dadra & NH and Daman Diu	159
9	Delhi	4,544
10	Goa	22
11	Gujarat	287
12	Haryana	7,959
13	Himachal Pradesh	2,028
14	Jammu And Kashmir	1,958
15	Jharkhand	717.2
16	Karnataka	11,600
17	Kerala	2,142
18	Ladakh	33
19	Lakshadweep	15
20	Madhya Pradesh	1,754
21	Maharashtra	17,315
22	Manipur	676
23	Meghalaya	2,145
24	Mizoram	250
25	Nagaland	1,405
26	Odisha	630
27	Puducherry	73
28	Punjab	10,902
29	Rajasthan	42,478
30	Sikkim	315
31	Tamil Nadu	1,449
32	Telangana	180
33	Tripura	22
34	Uttar Pradesh	11,809
35	Uttarakhand	383
36	West Bengal	45,894
	Total	2,74,279

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Annexure-II

 

 

State/UT wise statement showing undistributed ANBS foodgrains adjusted with subsequent NFSA distribution:

 

Sl.	State/UT	Balance (undistributed) foodgrains adjusted under regular NFSA (in MTs)
1	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	1
2	Andhra Pradesh	26,816
3	Arunachal Pradesh	20
4	Assam	5,870
5	Bihar	1
6	Chandigarh	129
7	Chhattisgarh	144
8	Dadra & NH and Daman Diu	126
9	Delhi	2,729
10	Goa	510
11	Gujarat	33,294
12	Haryana	378
13	Himachal Pradesh	836
14	Jammu And Kashmir	1,077
15	Jharkhand	25,653
16	Karnataka	28,593
17	Kerala	13,338
18	Ladakh	1
19	Lakshadweep	7
20	Madhya Pradesh	209
21	Maharashtra	17,194
22	Manipur	1,781
23	Meghalaya	-
24	Mizoram	418
25	Nagaland	-
26	Odisha	-
27	Puducherry	555
28	Punjab	3,243
29	Rajasthan	2,122
30	Sikkim	63
31	Tamil Nadu	34,285
32	Telangana	18,982
33	Tripura	2,461
34	Uttar Pradesh	1,28,828
35	Uttarakhand	2,522
36	West Bengal	14,290
	Total	3,66,478

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