Rajiv Gandhi Food Security Mission

 
This Mission will work to develop skills among villagers to provide permanent food security to identified families living below poverty line in surveyed villages in the backward and tribal areas of M.P.
· This programme will be run for identified families in 366 villages in which survey has been carried out.
· The nodal agency for this programme will be the Tribal Welfare Department. 
· Under this programme, every individual of the identified families will be provided food security throughout the year.
· It has been decided to undertake the following activities to benefit the identified families.

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 Improving the purchasing power of the members of such families by linking them with employment generation schemes.
· Making the present food distribution system effective and transparent.
· Developing the skills of the members of such families by providing them with training.
· To link the trained person with some scheme that will provide them with a source of permanent income.
· With the participation and efforts of the people of the villages that have been surveyed, provide better health facilities, better environment and constant monitoring.
 

 
The state government has started various development and employment schemes in the backward and tribal areas, for the villagers living under poverty line. For various reasons, in backward tribal areas mainly in Jhabua (129), Bastar (3), Dantewara (15), Kanker (7), Sarguja (95), Dindori (52), Dhamtari (4), Koria (13), and Raipur (48), there are some tribal families that cannot fulfil their food requirements. In the absence of permanent employment opportunities, the question of meeting the food requirements always looms large in front of them. It is the aim of this Mission to provide food security to such identified families.
 
 
Strategy
 
· In the first place, carrying out intensive surveys identifies those families living below Poverty Line in real need of food security.
· Using the medium of programmes of various departments the identified families are then provided permanent food security.

 
Goal
 

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 Identification of the beneficiary families in the marked villages in 1998-99.
· Assessing the skills of the identified families in the year 1998-99.
· Developing the skills of the beneficiary families by providing them with training under the different training schemes being run in the state.
· On the completion of the training, attaching trained personnel to suitable income generating activity.
· To promote the saving habit among the identified families.
· In the next five years, cent percent goal achievement through the medium of this scheme.