Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Minister Manoj Kanti Deb inaugurated a food go down with capacity of 500 MT at Belbari of Jirania sub-division today through a small programme. The food go down has been built at the cost of 1 crore 79 lakh rupees allotted from central government’s Storage Infrastructure Development Fund. Belbari BAC Chairman Roken Debbarma, Special Secretary of the department Dr. Sandeep R. Rathore, Under Secretary of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Goverment of India Tajinder Singh Bal, Director of the department Tapan Kumar Das, SDM Shantiranjan Chakma were present in the inaugural programme.
The Food Minister said, the present government has been working towards development
of tribal areas from the beginning. It was possible to normalize the transport of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene, hesides strengthening the public distribution system during the period of the present government. Under the same scheme, two food go downs of 1.000 MT capacity in Santirbazar at the cost of 2 crore 52 lakh rupees and of 500 MT capacity in Ganganagar of Ambassa at the cost of 1 crore 79 lakh rupees will be inaugurated in few days.
He also said, there are136 food go downs with 75 thousand 400 MT capacity under the state government and 7 food go downs with 42 thousand MT capacity under FCI at present under public distribution. So far, 1 lakh 30 thousand 721 MT paddy was procured at MSP in the state with government’s initiative. As a result, 243 crore 99 lakh rupees has been provided to the farmers. Paddy will be procured at Rs. 20.40 in the present Kharif season from the farmers. One Nation. One Ration Card scheme is rapidly being implemented in the state. Sugar, dal, tea are being given at ration shops presently. Steps are being taken to make soya chunks, cooking oil and spice powders available at ration shops. 250 new ration shops have been started recently. All of them are being managed by women. The Food Minister also said, during the period of the present govemment, 2 lakh 78 thousand 291 cooking gas have been distributed in the state under Ujjwala Yojana, Tripura ranked first among 14 special category states and Union Territories and fifth in the country in the recently published State Ranking Index 2022 Survey of NFS.
