{"id":88061,"date":"2019-12-17T01:17:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=88061"},"modified":"2019-12-17T01:17:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:47:27","slug":"fps-dealers-write-to-pm-seek-enhancement-of-allocation-under-nfsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/fps-dealers-write-to-pm-seek-enhancement-of-allocation-under-nfsa\/","title":{"rendered":"FPS dealers write to PM, seek enhancement of allocation under NFSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 16:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Fair Price Shop (FPS) Dealers Welfare Association in a representation to the prime minister on Monday requested the Centre to enhance the allocation of food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from 5 kgs per month per person to 10 kgs per person.<br \/>\nThe association also urged the government to enhance the allocation of sugar under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) in Arunachal.<br \/>\n&#8220;The present allocation of sugar is not sufficient. At present, only 1 kg of sugar is provided to AAY families. The overall allocation at the present rate comes to only 38 metric tonnes (MT), which is not sufficient, and no transporter<br \/>\nwould be willing to transport a meagre quantity of 38 MT and distribute it an area spreading across 84,000 sq mtrs,&#8221; it stated.<br \/>\nThe association&#8217;s other demands include granting of central financial assistance to the FPS&#8217; in Arunachal; release of the margin money of the FPS&#8217; in the state on a monthly basis, as well as enhancement of the margin money from Rs 120 to Rs 250 per month; and discontinuation of the proposal for direct benefit transfer of foodgrains allocation through the PDS network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Dec 16: The Arunachal Pradesh Fair Price Shop (FPS) Dealers Welfare Association in a representation to the prime minister on Monday requested the Centre to enhance the allocation of food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from 5 kgs per month per person to 10 kgs per person. The association also urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}