Bengal PDS Slips To Show Centre-State Subsidy Share

Kolkata: The Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries in West Bengal will get to know of the Centre's and the state's share in food subsidy every time they visit the ration shops to purchase their quotas of food items.

Sources from the state food & supplies department said that the PDS-slips that are provided to the consumers against purchase of ration, henceforth will contain the break-up of shares borne by the Union and the state governments in the subsidy provided on food items.

At the same time, the PDS slips will also contain the logo of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, the use of which on such slips has already been made mandatory by the Union government.

“Some other states have already introduced the system of giving details of the Centre-state share in food subsidy. Now it is turn for West Bengal to introduce this system,” a state food & supplies department official said.