Key elements of the ambitious food security scheme launched in Delhi by Congress president Sonia Gandhi which guarantees the poor the right to food:
* Eight hundred million Indians to benefit.
* Out of 10.6 million, 7.3 million people get the right to food in two phases in Delhi.
* If foodgrain is not provided, beneficiaries will get an equivalent ammount transferred to their bank accounts linked to the Aadhar cards.
* Homeless, rag pickers, residents of resettlement colonies will be eligible for the scheme.
* In the first phase, 0.5 million families will get highly subsidised foodgrain.
* Wheat will be available at Rs.2 per kg, rice at Rs.3 per kg and coarse grain at Re.1 per kg.
* Below poverty line, above poverty line and jhuggi (slum) ration card card holders will be included.
* Applications being invited at 200 centres and offices of food and supplies department of Delhi government.
* Food security cards will be issued to people.
* The second phase will be launched in Feb 2014.
——IANS