Bhubaneswar: Nepal delegation in India to study foodsecurity programmes led by Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Government of Nepal interacts with Odisha Chief Secretary on implementation of NFSA, State Food Security Scheme,use of technology for implementation & tracking of ration distribution in Odisha.
Members of the Team expressed such opinion after looking into the details of Odisha’s planning, implementation and monitoring of the food security programmes in a high-level interactive session held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra in State Lokseba Bhawan today. This high-level study team from Nepal visited Odisha to know about the innovative approaches and methods adopted by State in ensuring food security for all poor and vulnerable.
Speaking to the Team Chief Secretary Suresh Mahapatra said, “No poor will stay in hunger is the motto of our Government and Governance”. All concerned departments like food security and consumer welfare, women and child development, agriculture and farmers’ empowerment, scheduled tribe and scheduled caste development, social security and empowerment of persons with disability, water resources, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water, housing and urban development work at tandem for materializing this motto on a sustainable basis. For this, added Sri Mahapatra, “State is implementing national food security scheme, state food security programme, social security measures for old, differently able and destitute”. Recently the public distribution system ( PDS) has been transformed to a higher level with the adoption of technology, ground-truthing of databases, data sanitization and dynamic data monitoring on a real-time basis.
The High-level Study Mission from Nepal consisted of 10 members under the leadership of Dr Dil Bahadur Gurung, a Member National Planning Commission of Nepal. High-level officers from different Ministries associated with agriculture and food security in the Government of Nepal joined the team. They would spend 2 days in Odisha. The team was scheduled to have field-level visits to different FPSs, food dispensing by a grain ATM and operating of WSHGs in PDS.
