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Sugar could remain subsidised for poor families
Date:
27 Mar 2017
Source:
Business Standard
Reporter:
Sanjeeb Mukherjee
News ID:
6519
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To support the poor, the Centre is expected to continue with subsidised sale of
sugar
to about 25 million
Antodaya Anna Yojana
(AAY) families, bearing a financial burden of around Rs 550 crore a year.
Officials said the finance ministry seemed to be amiable to a suggestion from the ministry of food for continuation of
sugar
subsidy
for
AAY
families, as they were among the poorest of the poor. A Cabinet note could be prepared soon. The Centre had scrapped the
subsidy
on
sugar
amounting to Rs 4,500 crore in the 2017-18 Budget.
The
subsidy
was granted to enable states to distribute cheap
sugar
to
Below Poverty Line
(BPL) families.
The explanation for scrapping the
subsidy
was that after implementation of the National Food Security Act, the APL-
BPL
bifurcation got diminished and states were unable to provide details of the extent of
sugar
subsidy
that they incurred on
BPL
families.
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