Criteria to bring people under National Food Security Ordinance

by Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 10

The criteria for bringing people under the National Food Security Ordinance, proposed to be implemented in Haryana from August 20, has been so worked out as to extend its ambit to large swathes of both rural and urban populace, ranging from manual labourer in the rural hinterland to households earning less than Rs 2 lakh per annum in towns. The Haryana Food and Supplies Department has already framed the criteria for identification of eligible households.

  Stating this here today, Mr Danpat Singh, Principal Secretary, Food and  Supplies Department, Haryana, said that  according to the criteria for rural areas, the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households, Central Below Poverty Line (CBPL) and State Below Poverty Line (SBPL) households, homeless households,  households where the head of family is a disabled person,  households of landless agricultural laborers and households of small and marginal farmers owning land up to five acres would be automatically covered under priority households.

     Similarly,  households headed by a widow or single woman who is unmarried or  separated or deserted and occupationally vulnerable households where the main source of income is from cultivation, manual casual labour, part-time or full-time domestic service, foraging, rag-picking,  non-agricultural own account enterprise and begging,  charity or alms collection would also be automatically covered under priority households.

      He said that in rural areas, out of the identified eligible households income tax payers, VAT assesses registered under Haryana VAT Act 2003, Service Tax payers, professional tax payers, any household having more than two hectares of land of any type, any household owning motorized four-wheeler, any household which owns or operates an enterprise registered with the government, would be excluded as per criteria.

  Similarly, any household which owns mechanized four-wheeler agricultural equipment, all employees other than contractual or work charged or daily wager of Union Government, state governments and Union Territories or its boards, corporations, enterprises, undertakings, municipal corporations, municipal councils, municipal committees, improvement trusts and any household having annual family income of more than two lakh from all the sources would also be excluded as per criteria.

                   He said that for urban areas, Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households, CBPL and SBPL households would be automatically covered under priority households, households living in katcha houses, homeless households, households where head of family is disabled person, households headed by a widow or single women either unmarried or separated or deserted would be automatically covered as per the scheme of the union Government.

    Similarly, occupationally vulnerable households except government employees other than contractual or work-charged or daily wager of the Union Government, state governments and UTs or its boards, corporations , enterprises , undertakings, municipal corporations, municipal councils, municipal committees or improvement trusts, rag-pickers, beggars, domestic workers, street vendors, cobblers, hawkers, other service provider working on streets, construction workers, plumber, mason,  labourer,  painters, welders,  security guards, coolies, head-load workers, sweepers, sanitation workers, malis, home-based workers, artisans, handicrafts workers, tailors, transport workers,  drivers, conductors,  helpers to drivers and conductors, cart pullers, rickshaw pullers, shop workers, assistants, peons in small establishments, helpers, delivery assistants, attendants, waiters, electricians, mechanics, assemblers,  repair workers, washer-men, chowkidars and those having no income from any source would also be automatically covered according to the scheme evolved by the Union Government.

                He said that in urban areas,  all income tax payers, VAT assesses registered under the Haryana VAT Act 2003,  Service Tax payers, professional tax payers, any household having more than two hectares  of land, any household owning a house built on a plot area of 250 square  yards or more or flat of 1500 sq.ft. or more super area in municipal corporation or municipal councils in the state, household owning air-conditioner or  motorized four-wheeler would be excluded as per criteria.

   Similarly,  employees other than contractual,  work-charged or daily wager of Union Government, state governments and UTs or its boards, corporations, enterprises, undertakings, municipal corporations, municipal councils, municipal committees or Improvement Trusts and any household having annual family income of more than Rs 2 lakh from all sources would be  excluded as per criteria.