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As per the provisions of the Ordinance, a
person belonging to priority households would be entitled to receive 5 kg of
food grains per person per month at subsidized price.
Supply of rice is to be made available to the
eligible persons at the subsidized rate of Rs 3 per kg and wheat for Rs 2 per
kg.
Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said that the Centre
had earmarked 66.3 percent of rural and 51.55 percent of urban population in
the state to be covered under this programme.
"A total of 8.71 lakh people including
7.9 lakh rural population and 1.62 lakh urban population will be covered,
recording an increase of almost 70 per cent of beneficiaries in comparison to
3,92,843 population under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) earlier
purchasing rice under BPL and AAY scheme," he said.
"A country cannot progress with half of
its citizens going hungry every other day. Ensuring a bowl of rice to the
hungry stomach could be the best scheme ever introduced in the country which
would serve as a panacea to many ills of our nation," Tuki said.
The population of 2011 census has been taken
as the basis to calculate the percentage of coverage under priority household.
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