{"id":37927,"date":"2021-03-03T05:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=37927"},"modified":"2021-03-03T05:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:13:40","slug":"revision-in-the-national-food-security-act-nfsa-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/revision-in-the-national-food-security-act-nfsa-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Revision in the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NITI Aayog recently circulated a discussion paper on a proposed revision in the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The NFSA provides a legal right to persons belonging to \u201celigible households\u201d to receive food grains at subsidised price\u2013 rice at Rs 3\/kg, wheat at Rs 2\/kg and coarse grain at Rs 1\/kg \u2014 under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are called central issue prices (CIPs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Act, the term \u201celigible households\u201d comprises two categories \u2014 \u201cpriority households\u201d, and families covered by the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Priority households are entitled to receive 5 kg of food grains per person per month.<\/li><li>AAY households are entitled to 35 kg per month at the same prices.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NITI Aayog recently circulated a discussion paper on a proposed revision in the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The NFSA provides a legal right to persons belonging to \u201celigible households\u201d to receive food grains at subsidised price\u2013 rice at Rs 3\/kg, wheat at Rs 2\/kg and coarse grain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":37928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[1275],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-37927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2021","tag-indian-polity-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37929,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927\/revisions\/37929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37927"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=37927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}