Bhubaneswar (Odisha): Odisha has been ranked as the No. 1 performing state in the country by the Government of India in the recently published ‘State Ranking Index for NFSA 2022-Building Resilient Food Systems to Optimize Delivery of Benefits’. It was declared by the union. Food Minister Piyush Goyal at the Food Ministers’ Conference on Food and Nutrition Security in India, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Cooperation Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak expressed happiness over Odisha being ranked No. 1 in the country and said, “It is possible only because of the vision and foresight of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. He has also thanked the department. To all the officers of CSIR for their continuous effort to achieve this distinction.
“The assessment framework for ranking of States and Union Territories is built on three key pillars, which cover end-to-end implementation of NFSA through TPDS: NFSA – Coverage, Targeting and Provisions of the Act, Delivery Platform , Nutrition Initiative.Since the implementation of National Food Security Act in the state in 2015, Odisha has followed it up with robust end-to-end computerization of TPDS operations.
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The database of 3.25 crore digitized beneficiaries is hosted in the public domain, updated dynamically in 378 Ration Card Management System (RCMS) centres, one each in 314 blocks and 64 urban local bodies.
All the 152 food storage depots of the Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department have been made fully automated with the provision of real time electronic recording of 1.87 lakh metric tonnes of food grains per month at 12,133 fair price shops across the state. All fair price shops are equipped with electronic point of sale (e-POS) devices which ensure distribution to PDS beneficiaries through automatic mode.
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One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) program has been implemented across the state from July 2021. PDS beneficiaries are now availing the benefit of inter-state/inter-state portability of ration cards and are able to select any fair price shop of their choice and convenience. to get their monthly entitlements. About 1.10 lakh families are getting ration through inter-state facility and 533 families get ration through inter-state facility every month.
Keeping in view the network connectivity, 10578 fair price shops out of total 12,206 have been made ONORC-enabled shops. The numbers may go up once network connectivity improves in those fair price shop locations. Odisha has implemented the pilot scheme of ‘Supply of fortified rice under public distribution in Malkangiri district’ from July 2021.
Under NFSA and State Food Security Scheme, 3,138 metric tonnes of fortified rice is being supplied every month to about 1.29 lakh families with 4.66 lakh members. Apart from PDS (Pilot), this department has started supplying fortified rice to the Department of School and Mass Education for PM-POSHAN (formerly MDM) program and for SNP program to the Department of Women and Child Development in a phased manner.