Home Delivery Scheme of Foodgrains

1. Home Delivery Scheme of
Foodgrains
Shekhar Gaikwad
Additional Collector and Registrar,
YASHADA, Pune

2. World Food Problem
 Another 40 million people have been
pushed into hunger this year primarily
due to higher food prices, FAO estimates.
 Number of hungry people rises to 963
million.
The ongoing Financial & Economic crisis
could tip even more people into hunger
and poverty - WHO
Contd…

3. World Food Problem
 It is an issue not just of production but of
availability and access to food which are
limited by poverty, by inadequate
investment in rural areas.
 Approx. 960 million people could still be
undernourished by 2015.
 Girlchildren and women in poor
households are included in the hunger
vulnerable group in the Asian region.

4. Sustainable Food Security- FAO
Sustainable food Security is defined as
“when all people at all times have physical,
social and economic access to sufficient, safe,
nutritious food that meets their dietary needs
and food preferences for an active and healthy
life without compromising the productive
capacity of natural resources, integrity of
biological systems, or environmental quality”.

5. UNDP
At the local level food security depends
on the capacity of individuals and
households to produce their own food or
buy and use food of sufficient quantity or
quality all through the life cycle and
varying seasons.

6. Planning Commission’s
Evaluation of TPDS
 58% of subsidized foodgrains do not reach the BPL
families, 22% reaches APL and 36% sold in black
 High cost of handling : For one rupee transfer to
the poor, the GOl spends Rs.3.65/-
 Targeting errors, ghost cards and non-BPL
households
 Only 57% of the BPL households have ration cards
 FPS are not viable, they remain in business
through leakages

7. Alternative Mechanism
 Monitoring individual Fair Price Shop and its
delivery has its limitations, i.e. bureaucratic and
systemic.
 Village level vigilance committees have not made
any miracle.
 Monitoring and controlling PDS has become most
challenging work.
 Equally complex, time consuming and cost-
intensive.
 Impossibility of monitoring is a proved fact.
 Periodic one time open distribution in village is
one experiment, we attempted.

8. Existing System
FCI Godown
F Govt. Godown

9. Existing System
H
Govt. Godown
F F.P. Shops

10. New Scheme
Govt.
Godown
FP
Shopkeeper
/ Govt.
Gramsabha /
Village
Community

11. Key features of the scheme
 Periodical one time distribution at 3/6/12
months period after taking advance money.
 Foodgrains in the form of 50 kg sacks.
 Distribution before Village Community .
 Distribution to actual residents and needy people.
 FP shop owner’s commission intact.
 Watch of administration on distribution and of
family on foodgrains.

12. Important Stages
1) Scheme pamphlets to be handed over to people and local
representatives
2) Asking people to be ready with money for 3/6 months grains
requirement
3) Supply Inspector and Village Revenue Officer should collect
consent letters and amount from beneficiaries (min. 60%)
4) Fill up challan on same day by deducting commission of shop
keeper
5) Decide day of distribution (within 3 days)
Contd…

13. Important Stages
6) Carry food grains from Tahsil either by government vehicle or FPS
vehicle
7) Stack at prominent place – distribute before Gramsabha
(Community)
8) Make appropriate entries in records
9) Rebate to shop keeper
10) Communicate details to Tahsil office for record purpose
11) Give remaining food quota to FPS of the cardholders who have not
opted for Home Delivery Scheme

14. Payment Structure
Amount Amount
Maximum grains Maximum grains
Sr. to be to be
Scheme for 3 months (Kg) for 6 months (Kg)
No. paid paid
Wheat Rice (in Rs.) Wheat Rice (in Rs.)
1 Annapurna 15 15 Free 30 30 Free
2 Antyoday 50 50 250 100 100 500
3 B.P.L. 50 50 550 100 100 1100
4 A.P.L.* 50 50 825 100 100 1650
*If the norms are changed, actual quota can vary and can be in multiple of 50 kg.

15. Launched at
Alangun, Tal. Surgana
on
6 th June 2007

16. Transportation from Godown

17. Stacking At Prominent Place

18. Village Community (Gramsabha)

19. Actual Distribution

20. Food Sacks to Consumers

21. Food Sacks to Consumers

22. Carrying Foodgrains Home

23. Feedbacks
 Ideal for the Nation… Mr. J. P. Gavit, M.L.A.
 Regular practice is to give importance to the
implementer than beneficiaries…Dist. Collector
WILL BLACK
CHANGE MARKETING
THE WHIMS
OF FPS! Beneficiaries WILL
STOP!
DO NOT ASK
US TO GO TO SOCIAL
FAIR PRICE JUSTICE TO
SHOP AGAIN! HOW MUCH PROPER PEOPLE!
OF FOOD- UTILIZATION
GRAINS! OF MONEY!

24. Local as well as
Nation wide Media
Appreciated the Scheme

28. Rajiv Gandhi Administrative Award (2008)

29. Benefits of the scheme
 Periodic one time delivery assures :
– Availability of food at all the times
– Access to all the persons in terms of quantity and
quality
– Safety, Transparency and Accessibility
– Saving in Expenditure upto 15%
 Food Security ensured
 Sustainable Scheme
Contd…

30. Benefits of the scheme
 Control of family over foodgrains
 Boon to poor
 Foodgrains to needy residents
 Avoids organized black-marketing
 Increase in purchase power and decrease in
malnutrition
 Consumer satisfaction and time saving
 Administration to watch distribution

31. Progress of the scheme
(Till March 2010)
Sr. No. Name of the No. of Village No. of Distributed Food-Grain
Taluka / Shops Beneficiaries for 3 Months (in Qt.)
1 Nashik 9 820 820
2 Igatpuri 38 10396 10396
3 Sinnar 8 861 861
4 Dindori 24 3173 3173
5 Peth 41 3399 3399
6 Surgana 50 4578 2005
7 Niphad 4 1910 1910
8 Trimbakeshwar 36 3710 3710
9 Nandgaon 3 214 214
10 Satana 20 2380 2380
11 Chandwad 23 2396 2970
12 Kalwan 46 3272 3272
13 Devla 2 166 166
14 Yewla 1 437 339
15 Malegaon 9 1449 1449
Total 314 39161 37064

32. Nandurbar
(70)
Nashik
(314)
Beed
(3)
Pune
(137)
Total
694
Satara Solapur
(70) (50)
Sangli
(50)

33. Some questions…
 Additional food quota required…………… x
 Additional Cost……………………………………. x
 Time consuming……………………………………x
 Increased Administrative Burden………….x
 Food preference……………………………………..Yes

34. Striking Features
 Sustainable
 Replicable
 Flexible
 Transparent
 Responsive
 People friendly
 Cost effective

35. There are people in the world so hungry,
that god cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.