🔆State Ranking Index for Implementation of NFSA 2013
✅ Recently, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, released the first State Ranking Index for implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013.
✅Among the 20 big states and Union Territories (UTs), Odisha topped the list while Goa came last.
✅1st Edition State Ranking Index for Implementation of NFSA
✅ It was launched by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
✅It highlights the reforms undertaken by States and UTs and creates a cross-learning environment and scale-up reform measures by all states and UTs.
▪️Key Features
✅It largely focused on NFSA distribution and will include procurement, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) distribution in future.
✅It is built on 3 key pillars which covers the end-to-end implementation of NFSA through TPDS.
🔸Coverage of NFSA, rightful targeting, and implementation of all provisions under NFSA.
🔸Delivery platform while considering the allocation of food grains, their movement, and last-mile delivery to Fair Price Shops (FPS).
🔸 Nutrition initiatives of the department.
▪️Benefits
✅ The index has been developed to create an environment of competition, cooperation and learning among states while addressing matters of food security and hunger.
✅ Increase transparency in system by publishing reliable and standard data in the public domain.
✅It can also be utilised by the global and Indian agencies for research and analysis.
▪️Ranking
✅ Overall, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh Secured the top three positions in the Index.
✅ Among the special category states (northeastern, Himalayan and Island states), Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim obtained the top positions.
✅ Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu scored the highest in terms of coverage, targeting and implementing provisions of NFSA.
✅ Bihar, Andhra & Telangana had the best delivery platform displaying the efficiency of the TPDS supply chain.
▪️How Did Odisha Come In First Place?
✅Robust end-to-end computerization of TPDS operations. A digitised beneficiaries database has been hosted in the public domain and updated in Ration Card Management System (RCMS) Centres.
✅All the food storage depots of the Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Department have been fully automated.
✅Real-time electronic recording of doorstep delivery at FPSs across the State.
✅ All the Fair Price Shops are equipped with electronic Point of Sale (e-PoS) devices which ensure distribution through automated mode.
✅One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) Programme has been implemented across the state from 2021. PDS beneficiaries are now availing of intra-state/inter-state portability of ration cards.
✅Odisha has implemented the pilot scheme of ‘Supply of Fortified Rice under Public Distribution in Malkangiri
district’ from 2021.
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✅ Recently, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, released the first State Ranking Index for implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013.
✅Among the 20 big states and Union Territories (UTs), Odisha topped the list while Goa came last.
✅1st Edition State Ranking Index for Implementation of NFSA
✅ It was launched by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
✅It highlights the reforms undertaken by States and UTs and creates a cross-learning environment and scale-up reform measures by all states and UTs.
▪️Key Features
✅It largely focused on NFSA distribution and will include procurement, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) distribution in future.
✅It is built on 3 key pillars which covers the end-to-end implementation of NFSA through TPDS.
🔸Coverage of NFSA, rightful targeting, and implementation of all provisions under NFSA.
🔸Delivery platform while considering the allocation of food grains, their movement, and last-mile delivery to Fair Price Shops (FPS).
🔸 Nutrition initiatives of the department.
▪️Benefits
✅ The index has been developed to create an environment of competition, cooperation and learning among states while addressing matters of food security and hunger.
✅ Increase transparency in system by publishing reliable and standard data in the public domain.
✅It can also be utilised by the global and Indian agencies for research and analysis.
▪️Ranking
✅ Overall, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh Secured the top three positions in the Index.
✅ Among the special category states (northeastern, Himalayan and Island states), Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim obtained the top positions.
✅ Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu scored the highest in terms of coverage, targeting and implementing provisions of NFSA.
✅ Bihar, Andhra & Telangana had the best delivery platform displaying the efficiency of the TPDS supply chain.
▪️How Did Odisha Come In First Place?
✅Robust end-to-end computerization of TPDS operations. A digitised beneficiaries database has been hosted in the public domain and updated in Ration Card Management System (RCMS) Centres.
✅All the food storage depots of the Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Department have been fully automated.
✅Real-time electronic recording of doorstep delivery at FPSs across the State.
✅ All the Fair Price Shops are equipped with electronic Point of Sale (e-PoS) devices which ensure distribution through automated mode.
✅One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) Programme has been implemented across the state from 2021. PDS beneficiaries are now availing of intra-state/inter-state portability of ration cards.
✅Odisha has implemented the pilot scheme of ‘Supply of Fortified Rice under Public Distribution in Malkangiri
district’ from 2021.
#GS3
#example
#Food_security
#revision_notes
#mains_2022
#mains
Source PIB
Join @CSE_EXAM
@upsc_4_economy
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