Categorical Information Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The cyber area has been witnessing heated arguments and fudged stats over the contribution of state and Centre shares within the distribution of survival kits consisting important provisions and welfare pension to the individuals within the state because it had performed a pivotal position in making certain the second time period for the LDF authorities.
However the stats obtainable with the Finance division and Division of Meals, Civil Provides and Shopper Affairs give a transparent image on the state and centre share of contributions within the ‘survival package’ and ‘welfare pensions’.
In accordance with the stats supplied by the Finance Minister Okay N Balagopal within the meeting, the state offers totally different kind of social safety and welfare pensions to 54,23,851 individuals within the state for which the state must shell out round Rs 831.11 cr per 30 days as per the information in Could 2021. Out of the Rs 831.11 cr being spent as pensions, the state share would come round 86.9 % whereas the Centre share would come round 13.06 %. Equally, out of the full 54,23,851 pensioners, as many as 6,88,329 beneficiaries together with aged, widow, and incapacity pensioners within the BPL class get the central share of 13.06 %.
Within the case of survival kits, the state spends a median Rs 410 crore, as per the most recent information in Could 2021, to distribute survival kits consisting important provisions to a median 85 lakhs households. The state has spent a complete of Rs 4648.29 crore for the distribution of kits to this point and the state authorities prolonged the kits to Could and June contemplating the second wave of the Covid-19.
In accordance with G R Anil, Minister for Meals, Civil Provides and Shopper Affairs, “The Centre has not supplied any monetary contribution for the distribution of kits consisting important provisions. However, 1106.664 MT pulses acquired for the precedence ration card holders beneath the PMGKAY scheme used within the kits after its distribution among the many precedence card holders.”
However the stats obtainable with the division reveal that the Centre has allotted a complete of 6,64,090.313 MT rice, 99095.3 MT wheat and 30,269 MT pulses to distribute amongst varied class individuals together with migrants in numerous occasions within the final one 12 months, which had been distributed individually.
