Bhubaneswar: BJP on Thursday alleged irregularities, unethical differences and practices in the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) – Centrally sponsored schemes are intended to ensure food security for disadvantaged parties in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic , – In Odisha.
The BJP parliamentarians from the country submitted a memorandum for food Union, the Minister of Public Distribution Piyush Goyal accused that poor and poor people in Odisha were being seized by the scheme.
Parliamentary delegation, including Union Dharmendra Pradhan and Ashwini Vaishnaw and former Pratap Sarangi Minister, raised issues of the existence of a ghost recipient in the list of ration cards, smuggling backpacks to the open market and deviated from the scheme.
The state government by promoting photos of Minister of Naveen Patnaik’s head.
Parliamentarians demand an investigation into allegations and issuance of a direction to the state government to improve anomalies in the implementation of the central scheme.
Under PMGKay, as many as 12.94 lakh mt food grains and 27,853 mt pulses have been allocated, free of charge, to the state for the April-November period last year.
It benefited around 92.77 lakh ration card holders consisting of 3.26 lakh people, said memorandum.
This added that for 2021, around 11.35 food grains MT had been allocated for the country for the May-November period, which was only 6.22 lakh MT was chosen.
This concerns noting that the selection of food granules under the PMGKAY and National Food Security Security scheme (NFSA) is under 10% in Kendrapada Regency, Keonjhar, Khurda, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, Jharsuguda, Jagatsinghpur, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Bargarh, Angul , Balalasore, Bhadrak, Ganjam and Sundargarh.
Most of these districts are retarded and dominated by tribes, MPS BJP wrote in memorandum.
Responding to BJP’s accusations, a BJD spokesman and members of Rajya Sabha Sasmit Patra said the memorandum proved the ignorance of the BJP parliamentarian members about PMGKAY.
Patra said the allegations were leveled by BJP parliamentarians about irregularities and differences in the implementation of food security schemes was ridiculous and ridiculous.
He said Odisha had performed better in terms of implementing PMGKAY.