Niti Aayog mulls PDS supply of eggs, fish & meat

Niti Aayog is working on a proposal aimed at improving India’s low nutrition ranking and centred on the idea that the government subsidises protein-rich food, including eggs, fish, chicken and meat, possibly through its public distribution system. This is likely to be part of Niti Aayog’s 15-year Vision Document.

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The document is expected to be in place by early next year and will be effective from April 1, 2020. licymakers and individuals. Niti Aayog looking at widening the list of food items under the public distribution system to include at least one or mo-If implemented, these food items will join the food subsidy programme along with wheat, rice, coarse grains and a few varieties of pulses.