Include millets in PDS, other welfare schemes: Parl panel
Millennium Post Delhi|March 22, 2023
In a move aimed at encouraging the people to consume millets, the Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (2022-2023), which is led by BJP MP Locket Chatterjee, has suggested the government to include millets along with wheat and rice for the distribution to the beneficiaries of different government schemes under the National Food Security Act (NFSA).
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Include millets in PDS, other welfare schemes: Parl panel

However, the parliamentary panel, which submitted its report in Parliament on Tuesday, has suggested that the beneficiaries of different schemes should be given option to bundle millets along with wheat and rice within their entitled quantity.

The committee observed that the states are allowed to procure millets such as jowar, bajra, maize and ragi, etc from farmers at MSP under central pool and the procured quantity should be distributed under targeted public distribution system) or other welfare schemes in the state/UT.

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