State Ranking Index for NFSA- Relevance for UPSC Exam
State Ranking Index for NFSA: The first State Ranking Index for NFSA was released recently. State Ranking Index for NFSA 2022 is part of UPSC Mains GS Paper 2 (Governance, Administration and Challenges- Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.)
State Ranking Index for NFSA in News
- Recently, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution released the 1st edition of ‘State Ranking Index for NFSA’ during the conference of Food Ministers of States/UTs on ‘Food Nutrition and Security in India’.
State Ranking Index for NFSA 2022
- About: “State ranking Index for NFSA” attempts to document the status and progress of implementation of NFSA and various reform initiatives across the country, post consultation with states.
- Mandate: The first State Ranking Index for NFSA has been developed to create an environment of competition, cooperation and learning among states while addressing matters of food security and hunger.
- Focus Areas: The present State Ranking Index for NFSA is largely focused on NFSA Distribution and will include procurement, PMGKAY Distribution in future.
- Pillars of the Index: The Index for ranking the states and UTs is built on three key pillars which covers the end-to-end implementation of NFSA through TPDS. These pillars are-
- NFSA— Coverage, targeting and provisions of the Act,
- Delivery platform, and
- Nutrition initiatives
- Significance: “State ranking Index for NFSA” highlights the reforms undertaken by States and UTs and create a cross-learning environment and scale-up reform measures by all states and union territories. It will also help in-
- Creating transparency in the system to publish reliable and standard data in the public domain for citizens and
- Periodically publishing data that global and Indian agencies can use for their research and analysis.
State Ranking Index for NFSA Findings
- Overall, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh scored the highest and secured the top three positions in the Index.
- Odisha topped the list of 34 states and Union territories (UTs). Ladakh was ranked last on the index.
- Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim secured the top positions among special category states.
- Tripura ranked first and Ladakh came last among the 14 smaller states and UTs.
- Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu scored the highest in terms coverage, targeting and implementing provisions of NFSA.
- Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana had the best delivery platform displaying the efficiency of the TPDS (Targeted Public Distribution System) Supply Chain.
Conference of Food Ministers of States/UTs on ‘Food Nutrition and Security in India’
- About: Conference of Food Ministers of States/UTs on ‘Food Nutrition and Security in India’ is being organized in order to celebrate the enactment day of National Food Security Act (NFSA).
- National Food Security Act (NFSA) was enacted on July 5, 2013.
- Organizing Department: Conference of Food Ministers of States/UTs on ‘Food Nutrition and Security in India’ is being organized by the Department of Food and Public Distribution.
- Mandate: the conference was organized to deliberate and discuss nutritional security, food security, best practices followed in Public Distribution System, crop diversification, reforms in PDS and storage sector.
Global Food Security Index 2021