Cabinet meet on food bill today
Activists of the All-India Students’ Association and the Revolutionary Youth Association protest in New Delhi on Sunday
The city government is likely to approve the implementation of the Food Security Bill in the national capital in the Cabinet meeting on Monday. Sources close to the chief minister said that a Cabinet note has already been prepared in this regard and the preparations are in full swing. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will roll out her ambitious scheme on August 20 and the first phase of food security scheme is supposed to be start from September 1.
“A Cabinet note has been prepared and circulated in this regard by the city government’s food and civil supply department,” a source said. Sources say Ms Dikshit wants to implement the scheme, termed as a “game changer” by Congress leaders, before the Assembly elections, slated in November this year. According to the Cabinet agenda note, phase-I of the programme would cover 32.37 lakh persons or 5,21,737 families below poverty Line (BPL). At present, there are 1,03421 families are holding the ration cards under the Antyodaya Anna Yojna ( AAY). “The government will also give preference to residents of slums, resettlement colonies of F, G and H categories, residents of notified village abadis in rural villages, homeless, household with disabled people, household with people who suffer from disability and ailments like HIV, TB and Leprosy, single women living as dependent or recognised as head of household and others,” said a source. The Delhi government has already constituted a task force comprising two MPs — Sandeep Dikshit and Mahabal Mishra, three MLAs — former Delhi Assembly Speaker Subhas Chopra, Congress legislative party’s chief whip Kanwar Karan Singh and Delhi Wakf Board chairman Mateen Ahmad, to formulate a road map for immediate implementation of food security scheme in the national capital.
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