BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday held a review meeting on the public distribution system in Bhubaneswar and instructed the food supply and consumer welfare department to provide beneficiaries with an advance of three months' grain.
According to the chief minister's directive, each beneficiary will receive 15 kilogrammes of rice per month for three months (October to December).
Sources indicated that although this distribution process commenced on October 1, nearly 40 lakh families have yet to receive rice.
During the meeting, it was revealed that the state govt is implementing measures to include all registered labourers in the public distribution system.
"Among the 1.30 crore registered in the e-labourers system, nearly all have been included, while 1.31 lakh labourers remain," a statement from the CMO reads.
It states that the chief minister has instructed that these labourers be promptly included in the state's food security scheme.
"The meeting also covered the One Nation One Ration programme and the chief minister advised expediting the e-KYC process for Odia migrants residing in other states," the statement maintained.
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