In a bid to eradicate Malnutrition and anemia in aspirational and high-burden districts, the Chhattisgarh government has decided to distribute fortified rice from March.
A statement from the Food Department said the government will distribute fortified rice to the ration card holder beneficiaries in 10 aspirational and two high-burden districts under the .
The entire expenditure will be borne by the State Government.
Annual allocation of rice to ration cards under the state scheme via PDS will be about 3.89 tonnes.
Nearly Rs 28.43 crores will be spent on the fortification of this rice and Rs 11.16 crores will be spent on distribution to the beneficiaries of National Food Security Act. In this way, an amount of Rs 39.59 crores will be spent.
The 10 aspirational districts are Korba, Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund, Kanker, Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bijapur, Bastar, Kondagaon and Sukma.
The two high-burden districts are Kabeerdham and Raigarh.