New Delhi, April 04: A ministers’ panel meeting tomorrow is likely to consider raising poor families’ entitlement for rice or wheat to 35 kg per month at Rs 3 a kg.
The Empowered Group of Ministers of Food, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, earlier on March 18 cleared the Food Security Bill, which provided poor families right to 25 kg of the foodgrain in a month .
The EGoM is revisiting the bill, the ambitious agenda of the UPA Government, amid speculation that the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi wanted the scheme to provide a better deal for the Below Poverty Line families, estimated at 6.5 crore by the Planning Commission and also include women, chidlren and other sections of the society who don’t figure in the official BPL list.
–PTI