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08-07-2023

Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Saturday announced a 10 kg additional ration at subsidized rates for priority households of UT under Prime Minister’s Food Supplementation Scheme for Priority households. Addressing a press conference at Rajbhawan, the LG said that priority households in J&K are already getting a 5 kg ration free per member per family. “From now onwards, a 10 kg additional ration will be provided to each family covered under priority households. In J&K, 14.32 lakh ration card holders and 57,24000 families will be covered under Prime Minister’s FSS for priority households in the UT,” he said, adding that the welfare of the poor was the top priority of the J&K administration. He said the additional 10 kg ration will be provided at the rate of Rs 25 per kg. “This will cost Rs 1.80 Cr to the UT government annually,” the LG said, adding that against the Rs 34 per kg rate of rice, people coming under the PM’s FSS for priority households will have to pay only Rs 25 per kg. “There is a subsidy of Rs 9,” he said. “People falling in the category of priority households were already getting a 4 kg ration per person free of cost. So if there are four family members, they will get 16 kg free ration plus 10 kg additional rice at the subsidized rates,” the LG said.