Union Minister Piyush Goyal will meet state food ministers to discuss setting up food webs
The government will hold a meeting with the states’ food ministers on Thursday to discuss ways to start a community kitchen for the poor and create a “national food web”.
The meeting chaired by Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal is being held following the Supreme Court’s directive to the government to prepare a unified plan for community kitchens and establish national food network.
The official sources said “One country, one serving card”, the Aadhaar-seed of the ration card and the biometric authentication of transactions in the reasonably priced shops are some of the other issues that will also arise. discussed in the meeting.
Seeing the magnitude of the issue, Food Minister Sudhanshu Pandey had a discussion with chief secretaries as well as state food secretaries about the community kitchen model on November 21.
Many states like Odisha and Tamil Nadu operate community kitchens and provide cooked food at reasonable prices.
Hearing a written petition filed by activists Anun Dhawan, Ishann Dhawan and Kunjana Singh praying for the establishment of a community kitchen and the establishment of a national food grid, the highest court ordered the government to enter November 16 held a three-week policy meeting and framework.
Incidentally, earlier in the day, the Prime Minister held a Poshan Abhiyan review meeting with the food secretaries of the states and asked them to do it on “mission mode”.
