Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat has issued orders for completion of all formalities related to the effective implementation of the National Food Security scheme in the State from June 30.
All bottlenecks in the distribution of ration cards under the scheme should be removed within a week and nodal officers for the purpose appointed so that the drive could be expedited, Rawat told officials at a review meeting of the Food and Civil Supplies Department here yesterday.
Arrangements should be made for storage of adequate foodgrains in the hills to ensure that villages on the Char Dham Yatra route do not suffer from shortage of food during the monsoon, he said.
Claiming that the national food security scheme would benefit 61.94 lakh people of the State, Rawat said those not covered under the ambit of the scheme would get foodgrains under the State foodgrains scheme.