The Department of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs is one of the oldest established Departments previously known as Food & Supplies Department and later on as Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution Department.
The Department is entrusted with the responsibility of providing Food Security to the people in general and to the vulnerable sections of the society in particular.
The Department provides food grains, Rice, Atta and Sugar to consumers through a network of sale depots and Fair Price Shops. Besides enforcing & protecting the Consumer Rights.
The Public Distribution System envisages the system of management of food economy and distribution of foodgrains at affordable prices.
The PDS is although supplement in nature has almost all along helped to ensure availability of un-interrupted supplies of foodgrains in equitable basis at affordable prices not only giving relief to the consumer masses but also exercising stabilizing influence upon the prices of these goods. The PDS is operated under the joint responsibility of Central and State Government. The Central Government through FCI has the responsibility for procurement, Storage, Transportation and bulk allocation of foodgrains, the State Government has the responsibility of making allocation within the State, identification of families, issue of ration cards and distribution of foodgrains to the ration families.
The PDS has evolved country wide in 1960 to meet the critical food shortages in urban areas, later on extending to tribal blocks and areas of high incidence of poverty in 1970's and 1980's till June 1992 When a general entitlement scheme for all consumers without any specific target was launched in the shape of Revamped Public Distribution System (RPDS). In June 1997 the Government of India launched the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) with the focus on poor replacing the RPDS. The allocation to the foodgrains to the Sate/UT's was made by the Government of India on the basis of average consumption in the past i.e. average Annual off - take of foodgrains for the PDS during the past 10 years at the time of introduction of TPDS.
The State Government from 1st February, 2016 has implemented National Food Security Act, 2013. Under this Act, the eligible beneficiaries under priority households (PHH) are entitled to receive 5kgs of food grains per soul per month at subsidized prices of Rs.3/2/1 per kg for rice/wheat/coarse grains. However, the existing beneficiaries under Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), which constitute the poorest of the poor, will continue to receive 35 kg of food grains per household per month.
Under Non-Priority Households (NPHH) category the beneficiaries are provided foodgrains at a scale of 05 kg/soul per month at a subsidized price of Rs.12 per Kg for wheat, Rs.13 per Kg for Atta & Rs.15 per Kg for Rice.
At present the department is providing highly subsidized foodgrains to 32.08 lakh souls under Priority Households (PHH) at a rate of Rs 3 and Rs 2 for Rice and Wheat respectively. The department is also providing subsidized foodgrains to around 19.46 lakh souls under Non-Priority Households (NPHH) @ Rs. 12, Rs. 13 & Rs. 15 for Wheat, Atta and Rice Respectively.
S. No. | DISTRICT NAME | Population as per Census 2011 |
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1 | Doda | 409936 |
2 | Jammu | 1529958 |
3 | Kathua | 616435 |
4 | Kishtwar | 230696 |
5 | Punch | 476835 |
6 | Rajouri | 642415 |
7 | Ramban | 283713 |
8 | Reasi | 314667 |
9 | Samba | 318898 |
10 | Udhampur | 554985 |
Total | 5378538 |
S.No. | FPS Shops | AAY | PHH | NPHH | EXCLUSION | Total | |||||
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RCs | Units | RCs | Units | RCs | Units | RCs | Units | RCs | Units | ||
1 | AD POONCH | 10801 | 40089 | 57158 | 233087 | 32425 | 115598 | 697 | 2550 | 101081 | 391324 |
2 | AD RAJOURI | 13869 | 48057 | 92431 | 339102 | 48261 | 166122 | 635 | 2102 | 155196 | 555383 |
3 | AD KATHUA | 7444 | 25844 | 89064 | 335412 | 46119 | 164136 | 4956 | 17218 | 147583 | 542610 |
4 | AD DODA | 9350 | 34936 | 53717 | 201325 | 30135 | 107885 | 872 | 3166 | 94074 | 347312 |
5 | AD RAMBAN | 4825 | 18232 | 36734 | 154289 | 23255 | 86598 | 387 | 1380 | 65201 | 260499 |
6 | AD KISHTWAR | 6522 | 19786 | 38291 | 128455 | 17822 | 59405 | 607 | 2149 | 63242 | 209795 |
7 | AD UDHAMPUR | 6366 | 24895 | 66306 | 263009 | 38255 | 140795 | 4934 | 18308 | 115861 | 447007 |
8 | AD REASI | 9569 | 30812 | 42471 | 160432 | 23415 | 82208 | 776 | 2678 | 76231 | 276130 |
9 | AD JAMMU CIRCLE-1 | 51 | 112 | 6492 | 22366 | 32768 | 115586 | 11515 | 44893 | 50826 | 182957 |
10 | AD JAMMU CIRCLE-2 | 8 | 22 | 5220 | 18565 | 25728 | 99696 | 11722 | 52123 | 42678 | 170406 |
11 | AD JAMMU RURAL I | 6641 | 23334 | 80524 | 295634 | 37999 | 137605 | 1692 | 5628 | 126856 | 462201 |
12 | AD JAMMU RURAL II | 2597 | 9439 | 63971 | 240749 | 27776 | 105497 | 3167 | 12442 | 97511 | 368127 |
13 | AD SAMBA | 2431 | 8654 | 39649 | 156193 | 24920 | 102959 | 1990 | 8837 | 68990 | 276643 |
Total | 80474 | 284212 | 672028 | 2548618 | 408878 | 1484090 | 43950 | 173474 | 1205330 | 4490394 |
Category-wise, Scale & Rates of food grains under (NFSA) | |||||
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S.No. | Category | Monthly Scale | Rate per Kg (in Rs) | ||
Wheat | Atta | Rice | |||
1. | PHH(AAY) | 35 kg/family | Free of Cost | 1 | Free of Cost |
2. | PHH | 5 Kg/ Soul | Free of Cost | 1 | Free of Cost |
3. | NPHH | 5 Kg/ Soul | 12 | 13 | 15 |
Category wise rate per Kg under "J&K Food Entitlement Scheme" | ||||
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S.No. | Category | Rate Under "J&K Food Entitlement Scheme" per Kg (in Rs) | ||
Wheat | Atta | Rice | ||
1. | PHH(AAY) | 12 | 13 | 15 |
2 | PHH(BPL) | 12 | 13 | 15 |
3 | PHH | 12 | 13 | 15 |
4 | NPHH | 12 | 13 | 15 |
Scale and Rate of Sugar to the AAY family under NFSA | |
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Scale | 1kg per family per month to AAY. |
Rate | Rs. 13.50 per kg |
The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs is continuously taking effective steps to protect the interest of consumers in the State by strictly enforcing the State/central Laws, and organizing consumer awareness programmes. The Department has established consumer courts in the State. The State Consumer Disputes Redressal commission at the State level and two Divisional consumer fora in Jammu and Kashmir Divisions. The State Commission is headed by its President who is a retired judge of the Hon�ble High Court. The Divisional Fora are headed by in-service District and Session Judges. All three Fora are fully constituted. The Government has also approved for setting up of 8 District Foras, 4 each in Jammu and Kashmir Divisions. The requisite staff for the District fora has also been sanctioned and posts referred to the SSRB for making recruitment. Steps are being taken to make the District fora functional as early as possible.
Oil Marketing Companies (viz: IOCL, BPCL & HPCL) are providing services to the public by supplying Kerosene Oil and LPG through network of stockists, distributors and retailers. The FCS&CA and Legal Metrology Departments are regulatory authorities and frequently making inspections at the level of LPG filling station, stockists and retailers of LPG outlets.
The prices of specified essential commodities are fixed by the Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs in the cities of Jammu and Srinagar in consultation with the representatives of concerned trade, representatives of concerned Govt. Department and the consumer protection organizations while deliberating upon the issue factors like input costs, wholesale prices, distribution expenses and profit margin of the wholesaler/retailers are taken into account and only then the prices are fixed. To ensure adherence to the notified prices checking squads are in position.
In the districts this responsibility is discharged by the concerned Deputy Commissioner, who are the District Controllers.
Consumer Protection Division is mandated to implement the Consumer Protection Act, 2019(35 of 2019) dated 09-08-2019 and Rules/Regulations made under the ibid Act. It is entrusted with the framing of policy related to the protection of the interests of the consumers particularly those grievances arising in post-sale of goods and services.
It provides for establishment of three-tier quasi-judicial consumer disputes redressal machinery at the District, State and National levels commonly known as “Consumer Commissions” to render simple, inexpensive and speedy justice to consumers. These redressal agencies have the jurisdiction to adjudicate the complaints received from consumers against any defect in the goods purchased or deficiencies in the services availed or any unfair/restrictive trade practices, etc. adopted by any trader or person
The Department looks after the establishment and functioning of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, to be known as the District Commission, in each district of the State.
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir vide S.O No.72 of 2022 dated 22.02.2022 in exercise of powers conferred by sub section (1) of section 28 read with clause (a) of section 32 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (35 of 2019), the Government hereby establish District Commissions, in respect of following districts with respective jurisdiction as indicated against each:-
S.No. | District Commission | Additional Jurisdiction (Districts) in terms of section 32 |
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1. | Doda | Kishtwar |
2. | Jammu | ------ |
3. | Kathua | Samba |
4. | Rajouri | Poonch |
5. | Udhampur | Reasi & Ramban |