National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013

✅Notified on: 10th September, 2013.

✅Objective: To provide for food and nutritional security in the human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantities of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.

✅Coverage: 75% of the rural population and upto 50% of the urban population for receiving subsidized foodgrains under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).

🔸Overall, NFSA caters to 67% of the total population.

▪️Eligibility:

✅Priority Households to be covered under TPDS, according to guidelines by the State government.

✅Households covered under existing Antyodaya Anna Yojana.

▪️Provisions:

✅5 Kgs of foodgrains per person per month at Rs. 3/2/1 per Kg for rice/wheat/coarse grains.

The existing AAY household will continue to receive 35 Kgs of foodgrains per household per month.

✅Meal and maternity benefit of not less than Rs. 6,000 to pregnant women and lactating mothers during pregnancy and six months after the child birth.

Meals for children upto 14 years of age.

✅Food security allowance to beneficiaries in case of non-supply of entitled foodgrains or meals.

✅Setting up of grievance redressal mechanisms at the district and state level.