Entitlements:
| Category | Food grain | Quantity | Price(₹ per kg) | | Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) | Rice/Wheat | 35 kgs per housheold | 1 | | Priority Households | Rice/Wheat | 5 kgs per person | 1 |
Eligibility| Categories | Eligibility |
Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) | - Landless agricultural laborers and marginal farmers.
- Rural artisans/craftsmen (potters, tanners, weavers, blacksmiths, carpenters, slum dwellers)
- Persons working in informal sector (coolies, rickshaw pullers, hand cart pullers, fruit and flower sellers, snake charmers, rag pickers, cobblers)
- Households headed by widows or terminally ill persons/disabled persons/ persons aged 60 years or more with no assured means of societal support.
- Single women/men with no family or societal support
- All primitive tribal households
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Priority Households | Exclusion Criteria
1. Household owning motorized three wheeler (two or more) | a four wheeler | a heavy vehicle | a trawler | motor boats (two or more)
2. Household owning mechanized agricultural equipment such as Tractors or Harvesters.
3. Household with any member who is a regular employee - gazetted or non-gazetted - of Central Government, State Government, Public Sector Undertakings, Government aided autonomous bodies and local bodies. This will exclude incentive and other honorarium based workers
4. Household with any member in the family earning more than Rs.10,000/- per month in the rural and Rs.15,000/- per month for urban areas
5. Pensioners with monthly income of more than Rs.10,000/- per month in rural areas and Rs.15,000/- per month in urban areas
6. Household with enterprises (other than micro-enterprises) registered with the Government for manufacturing and services
7. Household paying Income Tax or Professional Tax
8. Household having domestic electric connection with a load of 2 KW or more and consuming an average of 300 units of energy (KWH) per month
9. Household with three or more rooms with pucca walls and pucca roof
1. Household without shelter 2. Household with destitute who is living on alms 3. All households of Primitive Tribal Groups 4. Household having a widow pension holder, if not otherwise ineligible as per 9 exclusion criteria 5. A person with disabilities of 40% or more 6. Any transgender person
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2015 2014Food Security Act: Odisha to digitize ration cards (Business Standard, 20 October 2014) Odisha to complete first phase of digitization for NFSA by Jan 2015 (Chinmoy Dehury, Odisha Sun Times, 15 October, 2014) Food security: to get or not to get (Bibhuti Barik, The Telegraph, 9 October 2014) State kicks of ration card digitization (The New Indian Express, 9 October 2014) IBM study on NFSA beneficiaries to be extended statewide (Business Standard, 7 October 2014) Farmers’ registration takes off ahead of paddy procurement (Business Standard, 30 September 2014) EC stops Odisha govt from rolling out scheme (Times of India, 17 September 2014) NPR Data to Put Ration Cards on Digital Tracks (The New Indian Express, 30 August 2014) Potato to Be Sold at PDS Outlets for Rs 20 per kg (The New Indian Express, 8 August 2014) PDS in Odisha to include edible oil, pulses: Padhi (Odisha Channel, 26th June, 2014) Border row comes as a boon for them (The Hindu, 04 May 2014) Exclusion Criteria Will See Odisha Miss NFS Deadline (The New Indian Express, 1 May 2014)
Patnaik ridicules Congress over Food Security Act, targets BJP (IBNLive 12 Apr 2014) CPI Promises to Fight for Farmers ?(The New Indian Express, 30 March 2014)
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