Cabinet nod to distribution of fortified rice under govt schemes
Date
4/10/2022 4:08:14 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The government today announced a three-phased implementation of
a scheme to distribute fortified rice under different food
programmes run by the Centre, Trend reports citig The Tribune.
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur
said a decision in this regard was taken during a meeting of the
Union Cabinet, which met on Thursday under the chairmanship of PM
Narendra Modi.
“PM Modi had announced on August 15, 2021, that the rice
distributed under various schemes would be fortified,” said
Thakur.
Later, the government said the Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs had accorded its approval for the supply of fortified rice
throughout the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) under the
National Food Security Act (NFSA), Integrated Child Development
Services (ICDS), Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman-PM POSHAN and
other welfare schemes of the Government of India in all states and
union territories by 2024 in a phased manner.
Sharing details of the programme during a press briefing, the
minister said in the first phase, fortified rice was being
distributed under the ICDS and PM POSHAN.
The Union Cabinet has given its nod to continue with the Atal
Innovation Mission till March 2023. The govt said the intended
targets under the scheme would be to establish 10,000 Atal
Tinkering Labs, 101 Atal Incubation Centres and supporting 200
startups via the Atal New India Challenges.
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