A.P. Food Security Rules, 2017

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    "slug": "a-p-food-security-rules-2017",
    "title": "A.P. Food Security Rules, 2017",
    "short_title": "A.P. Food Security Rules, 2017",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. (G.O. Ms. No.8, Co",
    "act_year": 2017,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "A.P. Food Security Rules, 2017",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and Commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the National Food Security Act, 2013 [No. (3.20 of 2013];\n(b) \"Commission\" means State Food Commission constituted for the State of Andhra Pradesh under sub-rule (1) of Rule 7 read with Section 16 of the Act;\n(c) \"Commissioner\" means the Commissioner of Civil Supplies of the Government of Andhra Pradesh;\n(d) \"entitled person\" means a person belonging to eligible households identified as such under the Act by the State Government and in possession of a valid ration card and includes beneficiaries identified for provision of Supplementary Nutrition;\n(e) \"Household\" means a nuclear family comprising mother, father and their children. Dependent parent, single women which includes widow, abandoned, separated, divorced or unmarried woman over age of 35 years with or without their dependent children, disabled with or without their dependent children, even if they have a common roof or hearth will be treated as a separate household for the purpose of this Act and Rules;\n(f) \"Social Audit facilitators\" means the Resource Persons identified and trained by the Society for Social Audit, Accountability and Transparency, SSAAT Andhra Pradesh or any agency identified for the purpose who will facilitate the Social Audit;\n(g) \"Social Audit Gram Sabha\" refers to the periodic assemblies of the Gram Sabha for Social Audit. No Social Audit Gram Sabha shall restrict participation of its members who has an opinion to offer or make a contribution in any way as long as they adhere to the principles of Social Audit;\n(h) \"Chronic disease\" means which are long-lasting condition that can be controlled but not cured and leading to cause death and permanent disability i.e., coronary heart disease, stroke, breast, cervical and lung cancer; HIV/AIDS.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Identification of eligible households.",
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            "content": "(a) the households which are to be provided monthly ration of food grains under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) as a right, in accordance with the guidelines application to the said scheme;\n(b) the priority households in which all the members of the household are to be provided monthly ration of food grains as per Section 3(1) of the Act, under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) as a right; and\n(c) the individuals to be provided with supplementary nutrition and cash entitlements a per Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Act.\n(i) All Particularly Vulnerable Tribal/Nomadic and De-notified Tribal households\n(ii) Widows or single women or single men with no family or societal support or assured means of subsistence\n(iii) Households of women victims of trafficking, rape and violence against women under the Nirbhaya Act.\n(iv) Households of victims of atrocities under SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989\n(v) Terminally ill persons or disabled persons or persons aged 60 years or more or\n(vi) Urban and Rural Homeless destitutes and beggars.\n(vii) Leprosy Affected persons, HIV Positive patients/families, families of deceased due to starvation and families threatened by Starvation Deaths, (viii) Persons freed from bonded labour. 2(b) Landless agriculture labourers and other unorganized workers as identified under Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, 2008\n(viii) Persons freed from bonded labour.\nIn Rural area :\n(i) Households having land more than 10 Acres shall be excluded and in Ananthapur District, this limit will be upto 20.00 Acres (ii) Households having any member as Government employee, not being a contract employee of the Government, shall be excluded (iii) Households having any member as Income Tax assess (iv) Households having own motorized four wheeler but not used as taxi (v) Household having own or rented house with monthly electricity consumption of more than 200 units of residential category In Urban area:\n(ii) Households having any member as Government employee, not being a contract employee of the Government, shall be excluded\n(iii) Households having any member as Income Tax assess\n(iv) Households having own motorized four wheeler but not used as taxi\n(v) Household having own or rented house with monthly electricity consumption of more than 200 units of residential category\nIn Urban area:\n(i) Household having own house of more than 750 Sq.ft. in Urban Areas (other than Government housing scheme)\n(ii) Households having any member as Income Tax assessee\n(iii) Households having own motorized four wheeler but not used as taxi\n(iv) Household having own or rented house with monthly electricity consumption of more than 200 units of residential category\n(v) Households having any member as Government employee, not being a contract employee of the Government, shall be excluded\nIn Rural Areas:\n(i) PVTG Households\n(ii) Nomadic and de-notified tribal groups\n(iii) Destitute Women/Widows/Women headed households/Women subjected to Trafficking and Joginis\n(iv) Households with persons with disability possessing SADAREM certificates of disability\n(v) Households with Sweeper/sanitation worker/Rehabilitated Safai Karamchari.\n(vi) Households of Active job card holders under MGNREGS.\n(vii) Households of Landless agriculture workers and other unorganized workers as identified under unorganized workers Social Security Act, 2008.\n(viii) Households of beneficiaries of social security pensions.\n(ix) Homeless persons, particularly women, old age persons.\n(x) Transgender persons\n(xi) People suffering with T.B and other chronic diseases which are defined under sub-rule (1)(h) of Rule 2 of these rules.\n(xii) Homeless persons, particularly destitute women, old age persons and children\nIn Urban Areas:\n(i) Nomadic and de-notified tribal groups\n(ii) Destitute Women/Widows/Women headed households/Women subjected to Trafficking and Joginis\n(iii) Households with persons with disability possessing SADAREM certificates of disability\n(iv) Beggars/Rag Pickers\n(v) Households with Sweeper/sanitation worker/Rehabilitated Safai Karamchari.\n(vi) Families residing in Notified Slums\n(vii) Households of all kinds of unorganized workers as identified under unorganized workers Social Security Act, 2008.\n(viii) Households of beneficiaries of social security pensions\n(ix) Homeless persons, particularly destitute women, old age persons and children\n(x) Transgender persons\n(xi) People suffering with T.B. and other chronic diseases which are defined under sub-rule (1)(h) of Rule 2 of these rules.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Reforms in Targeted Public Distribution System.",
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            "content": "(a) The A.P. State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd., or the agency authorized by the State Government shall create and maintain scientific storage facilities at State, District, and Mandal levels to accommodate food grains required under the TPDS and other welfare schemes.\n(b) Establish institutionalized licensing system to run fair price shops in accordance with the PDS (Control) Order 2015 and National Food Security Act, 2013 through Public institutions or local bodies, Self help groups, Cooperatives.\n(c) Keeping in view the public interest, the State Government may replace all or any of the fair price shop dealers/nominated retailer/hawker and entrust the distribution through a shop set up by the State Government, a State Government undertaking or a Corporation wholly owned by the State Government or a Co-operative Society for the benefit of persons belonging to Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, under a Government Scheme or local bodies and women Self help groups.\n(d) To ensure transparency and accountability of distribution of essential commodities to the targeted beneficiaries, available technologies have to be utilized to achieve end-to-end computerization of PDS.",
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "5. Internal Grievance redressal mechanism as per Section 14 of the Act.",
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            "content": "(a) Submission of grievance in person or through post in writing and obtaining acknowledgement to that effect\n(b) Submission of grievance through web based format which generates a unique complaint number for each complaint\n(c) Submission of grievance through mobile or landline either by SMS or voice call or voice mail which generates a unique complaint number for each complaint\nS.No.\nS.No.\nEntitlement\nEntitlement\nDepartment/Authority Responsible for\n\t\t\t\t\tproviding the entitlement\nDepartment/Authority Responsible for\n\t\t\t\t\tproviding the entitlement\nNodal/Appellate authority for addressing the\n\t\t\t\t\tgrievance related to the entitlement\nNodal/Appellate authority for addressing the\n\t\t\t\t\tgrievance related to the entitlement\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\n1\nUpon satisfying the eligibility criteria, right\n\t\t\t\t\tto get the name of the individual/household included in the\n\t\t\t\t\teligibility list and getting a ration card\nRevenue/Tahsildar\nDGRO/State Food Commission as appellate\n\t\t\t\t\tauthority\n2\nRight of the eldest women in the household to\n\t\t\t\t\tbe recognised as head of the household and the card to be issued\n\t\t\t\t\ton her name with names of other family members included\nRevenue/Tahsildar\nDGRO/State Food Commission as appellate\n\t\t\t\t\tauthority\n3\nRight to get monthly ration of food grains as\n\t\t\t\t\tprovided in the Act and in addition, any other commodities as\n\t\t\t\t\tincluded by any scheme notified by the Central or State\n\t\t\t\t\tGovernment under the Act, at the nearest ration shop of place of\n\t\t\t\t\tresidence during any of the working hours and days notified\nFP shop dealer\nTahsildar/DGRO as appellate authority\n4\nRight to enroll themselves or identified and\n\t\t\t\t\tenrolled by the AWW in nearest Anganwadi centers as children\n\t\t\t\t\tunder age group of 06 months to 6 years as well as Pregnant and\n\t\t\t\t\tLactating women.\nDepartment of Women and Child Welfare/Anganwadi\n\t\t\t\t\tworker (AWW)\nCDPO, ICDS/DGRO as appellate authority\n5\nTake Home ration/mid day meal with a 600 kcal\n\t\t\t\t\tof energy and 18-20grms of proteins per day as per guidelines of\n\t\t\t\t\tICDS/State Government rules as a right for Pregnant women and\n\t\t\t\t\tlactating mother who are enrolled in Anganwadi.\nDepartment of Women and Child Welfare/Anganwadi\n\t\t\t\t\tworker (AWW)\nCDPO, ICDS/DGRO as appellate authority\n6\nTake Home ration with a 500 kcal of energy and\n\t\t\t\t\t12-15 grms of proteins per day as per guidelines of ICDS/State\n\t\t\t\t\tGovernment rules as a right who are enrolled in Anganwadi.\nDepartment of Women and Child Welfare/Anganwadi\n\t\t\t\t\tworker (AWW)\nCDPO, ICDS/DGRO as appellate authority\n7\nRight to get hot cooked mid-day meals, free of\n\t\t\t\t\tcharge, served at school every day, except on school holidays\n\t\t\t\t\tfor children studying in respective Government and Government\n\t\t\t\t\taided schools between the age group of 6 to 14 years\nHeadmaster of the school\nMandal Education Officer DGRO as appellate\n\t\t\t\t\tauthority\n8\nMorning snack and Hot cooked meal with a 500 kcal of energy\n\t\t\t\t\tand 12-15 grms of proteins per day as per guidelines of\n\t\t\t\t\tICDS/State Government rules as a right who are enrolled in\n\t\t\t\t\tAnganwadi.\nDepartment of Women and Child Welfare/Anganwadi worker (AWW)\nCDPO, ICDS/DGRO as appellate authority\n9\nIn Addition to provided at SI.Nos.6 and 8 above, the 300\n\t\t\t\t\tcalories of energy and 8-10 grams of protein are provided as a\n\t\t\t\t\ttake home ration/mid day meal as per guidelines of ICDS/ State\n\t\t\t\t\tGovernment rules.\nDepartment of Women and Child Welfare/Anganwadi worker (AWW)\nCDPO, ICDS/DGRO as appellate authority\n10\nMaternity benefit of not less than rupees six thousand, in\n\t\t\t\t\tsuch installments as may be prescribed by the Central\n\t\t\t\t\tGovernment.\nDepartment of Women and Child Welfare/Anganwadi Worker (AWW)\nCDPO, ICDS/DGRO as appellate authority\n11\nRight of entitled person to the payment of food security\n\t\t\t\t\tallowance in every case where entitled quantity of food grains\n\t\t\t\t\thas not been supplied due to non-availability of food grains at\n\t\t\t\t\tthe fair price shop or for any unforeseen reasons, within the\n\t\t\t\t\tend of the third week of the month following the month in which\n\t\t\t\t\tthe non-supply occurred.\nRevenue Department/Tahsildar\nDGRO/State Food Commission as appellate authority",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. District Grievance Redressal Officer.",
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            "content": "(a) Receipt of grievances from the card holders, individual entitlement holders as per the provisions of the Act as well as general public and shall take up hearing directly;\n(b) Order preliminary enquiry and hearing by the Tahsildar or RDO as the case may be on the reported grievance and obtain report from them within a specified time frame for further action;\n(c) Conduct of periodic review meetings of all the designated nodal officers in the District to review and strengthen the grievance redressal systems and processes and obtain necessary reports from them;\n(d) Ensure proper conduct of Social audit process in the District and deputing necessary mandal and District officials for the purpose of Social audit meetings at village and mandal level;\n(e) nominate the nodal officer on his/her behalf in special circumstances to present cases before State Food Commission so as to facilitate the redressal of grievance within the stipulated time;\n(f) District Grievance Redressal Officer shall have all the powers of a Civil Court while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and in particular, in respect of the following matters; namely, -\n(i) Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(ii) Discovery and production of any document;\n(iii) Receiving evidence on affidavits;\n(iv) Requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any Court or office; and\n(v) Issuing Commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents.\n(g) DGRO shall have power to give directions as specified in sub-rule (5) to the appropriate authorities for enforcing the entitlements under the Act;\n(a) if he/she finds complaints to carry substance, may give such directions and relief as enumerated for compliance with the entitlements granted under the Act;\n(b) if he finds complaints does not have any substance discharge the notice.\n(a) Verify whether there is prima facie substance in the complaint to proceed in the matter;\n(b) If the officer is satisfied, that there is prima facie ground to proceed in the matter, he/she shall issue a notice to all parties in the case fixing date, time and place for the hearing\n(c) On the date fixed for hearing he/she shall hear the parties and take such evidence as may be given by them; there shall not be adjournment without valid reason;\n(d) If, the complainant or his authorized representative is absent on the date fixed for hearing, the complaint may be decided on its merits;\n(e) If, the defending party is absent on the date fixed for hearing, the officer may proceed to enquire the matter ex parte and decide accordingly;\n(f) He/She may also, at the request of the parties or suo-moto adjourn the proceedings to some other date with or without cost;\n(g) After the enquiry, the District Grievance Redressal Officer shall give his/her judgement, which shall clearly state in writing the reasons for his judgement;\n(a) provision of the entitlement, which is either food grains or meals or any other entitlement, with immediate effect, not exceeding seven calendar days;\n(b) payment of food security allowance by the end of the third week of the month following the month in which the non-supply occurred;\n(c) supervision by an appropriate person/representative, of such provision or payment, as the case may be, under clauses (a) and (b) above;\n(d) any other appropriate direction:",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Placing records in the public domain for inspection and greater transparency.",
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            "content": "(a) Guidelines notified by the State Government for identification of eligible Priority households as well as eligibility criteria for Anthyodaya Anna Yojana\n(b) Habitation wise, Fair price shop/dealer wise List of beneficiaries under Anthyodaya Anna Yojana households and eligible Priority households for distribution under Targeted Public Distribution System;\n(c) School wise details of number of students availing mid-day meals, quantity of food grains and items being provided under mid-day meals, inspection reports etc.;\n(d) The entitlements of food grains, including quantity and price, of beneficiaries under (b) above as well as status of the uptake of their entitlements;\n(e) Details of the Fair Price Shops in the State, Districts block etc.;\n(f) Monthly Fair Price shop-wise, School-wise, Anganwadi center-wise food grains allocation orders;\n(g) Habitation-wise and Anganwadi centre-wise list of individual beneficiaries who are receiving supplementary nutrition;\n(h) Policy directives issued by the State Government or the Commissioner of Civil Supplies, Andhra Pradesh to the Collectors, District Grievance Redressal Officers and other officers of the State Government for effective and efficient implementation of the Act;\n(i) Yearly or other periodical reports, studies and evaluation reports related to the implementation of the Act in the State;\n(j) Social Audit Calendar, findings of the Social Audit alongwith action taken reports; and;\n(k) Contact details of all DGROs, Vigilance Committees, department officials and Food Commission members.\n(b) All documents and records identified under sub-rules (1) and (2) shall be open for public inspection, free of charge, and shall be kept at places mentioned in column (3) of Schedule-A, by the authorities indicated in column (4) of the said schedule.\n(c) Any person may, after ensuring receipt of notice of 3 days, to the concerned local authority, inspect such records, free of charge\n(d) Any person may request copies of the records after paying minimum copying charges as being charged for providing information under Right to Information Act, 2005\n(e) Copies requested under sub-rule (3)(d) shall be given within 15 days of receipt of application along-with such fee.",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. State Food Commission.",
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            "content": "(b) Principal Secretary, Food and Consumer affairs in consultation with the Secretaries of Women and child Welfare, Social Welfare and Tribal welfare departments prepare a list of probable members and submit to the Government for consideration and appointment.\n(c) The salaries and allowances payable to and other terms and conditions of service of the Chairperson shall be the same as that of the State Chief Information Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh State Information Commission and the Members shall be the same as that of a State Information Commissioners of the Andhra Pradesh State Information Commission.\n(i) One officer of the cadre of Deputy Director (CS)/Dy.Collector/Assistant Secretary\n(ii) One Administrative Officer\n(ii) One Accounts Officer\n(iv) One Accountant\n(v) Two MIS specialists\n(vi) Two Research officers or subject-matter specialists on Food and nutrition, Rural Development, Public Distribution systems etc, on outsourcing basis\n(vii) Necessary support staff like drivers, DTP operators and other office staff as notified by the Government from time to time.\n(b) The quorum for the meeting of the Commission shall be four members.\n(c) The Chairperson of the Commission may instruct the Member-Secretary to call a meeting of the Commission to be held at such time and at such place as the Chairperson may direct. In addition, any member of the Commission may request for a meeting of the Commission at any time by sending a notice in writing to the other members and with a copy to the Member Secretary. The notice of all meetings shall be given to the members in writing.\n(d) The Commission shall be entitled to decide urgent matters by circulation of the paper to all the members.\n(e) In case of a difference of opinion among the members of the Commission, the opinion of the majority shall prevail and the opinion of the Commission shall be expressed in terms of the views of the majority. Each member of the Commission shall have one vote only. The Chairman shall have no casting or second vote.\n(f) All decisions, directions and orders of the Commission shall be in writing and shall be supported by reasons. The decisions, directions and orders of the Commission shall be available for inspection by any person. Copies of the same shall be made available in the website of the Commission and as in a manner as the Commission may specify.\n(g) When the Chairperson of the Commission is unable to discharge the functions owing to absence, illness or any other cause, the next senior member of the Commission shall discharge the functions of the Chairperson, until the day on which the Chairperson assumes the charge of his functions.\n(h) The Member Secretary shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission and shall exercise such powers and discharge such functions, as delegated by the Commission.\n(a) Subject to the provisions of the Act and the rules thereunder, the Commission shall have the power to lay down its own procedure.\n(b) To hear appeal over the decisions of the District Grievance Redressal Officers. The appeal shall lie within 30 days from the date on which the decision should have been made by or was actually received from the office of DGRO.\n(c) While making a decision on the appeal or the complaint, the State Food Commission has the power to require the DGRO or any officer responsible for providing any entitlement under the Act to comply with the Provisions of the Food Security Act-\n(i) Issue of ration cards or eligibility cards upon satisfying the eligibility criteria\n(ii) Right to receive food grains at sub-sidised prices by persons belonging to eligible households under TPDS or Antyodaya Anna Yojana\n(iii) Nutritional support to pregnant women and lactating mothers\n(iv) Nutritional support to Children\n(v) Prevention and management of Child malnutrition\n(vi) Implementation of various schemes for realisation of entitlements under the Act\n(vii) Payment of Food Security Allowance\n(d) To summon DGRO or any other official involved in the implementation of the Act, against which a grievance/complaint is received or whose presence is felt necessary for disposal of any matter before the Commission\n(e) To direct any official to act in pursuance of objectives of the Act or to perform any functions necessitated to implement the provisions of the Act\n(f) To decide on the appeals and complaints received and direct the appropriate authority to act accordingly\n(g) To award penalties as provided in the Rules for default or breach of provisions of the Act as decided by the Commission.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Vigilance Committees.",
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            "content": "(a) regularly supervise the implementation of all schemes under this Act;\n(b) inform the District Grievance Redressal Officer, in writing, of any violation of the provisions of this Act and;\n(c) inform the District Grievance Redressal Officer, in writing, of any malpractice or misappropriation of funds found by it",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Social Audit.",
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            "content": "(a) The Department of Food and Civil Supplies shall enter into a MoU with the Society for Social Audit, Accountability and Transparency - Andhra Pradesh or any other agency and shall be responsible for coordinating the social audit process in the State. The agency identified will develop Guidelines, Rules and Manuals for Social Audits, bring on board all stakeholders, develop resource material and take up training of resource persons and village social auditors. The agency identified for the purpose will function independently and will not be involved in the implementation of National Food Security Act or any other Government scheme.\n(b) Social audit facilitators may be identified and drawn from the community.\n(c) The budget for conducting social audit will be met from the administrative expenses of the NFSA.\n(d) DGRO of each District, in consultation with the Social Audit agency shall frame an annual calendar for social auditing and shall announce the dates of social audit atleast thirty days in advance.\n(e) The implementing agency will not participate in the actual social audit process. However, it shall be the responsibility of the Nodal Officer to ensure that all the required information in the requisite formats are provided, to the Social Audit Facilitators and Social Audit Gram Sabha at least 7 days in advance of the scheduled date of meeting of the Social Audit Gram Sabha.\n(f) 'Social audit facilitators' will facilitate social audit in the following manner:\n(i) From among the entitled persons under the Food Security Act, Village Social Auditors (VSA) will be identified and trained.\n(ii) The VSAs will be equipped with the records to take up the necessary verification\n(iii) The VSAs will be allotted villages which shall not be their native villages and the village level social audit process will be supervised and ensured as detailed in sub-rule (3)\n(a) Social Audit Gram Sabha will provide an opportunity to review compliance with ongoing requirements of transparency and accountability. It will serve as an institutional mechanism at panchayat level for conduct of a detailed public audit of all schemes and programmes that fall under the purview of the National Food Security Act.\n(b) In addition to the Social Audit Gram Sabha, a Social Audit Public Hearing at the Mandal level shall be conducted where all the Gram Sabha Reports and Action Taken Reports of all villages in a mandal shall be read out before the officials and the beneficiaries and unresolved Gram Sabha matters, if any, taken up for disposal. This will also create a sense of transparency and accountability amongst the implementation machinery at various levels\n(c) The DGRO shall nominate a District level official to attend the Social Audit Public meeting at mandal level. This officer shall be responsible for deciding the action to be taken on the issues identified through the social audit process. He/she shall also make sure immediate redress of grievances during the course of meeting and ensuring that the public hearing takes place in true democratic spirit in an atmosphere where everyone can speak and testify without fear. This officer will be responsible for filing a report with the DGRO as per a prescribed format\n(a) Beneficiaries who have received an entitlement in cash or kind (food grains and other commodities, meals, cash entitlement, food security allowance) as provided in Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of National Food Security Act will be contacted/verified to check\n(i) If he/she has received the entitlement in full or not;\n(ii) Whether they have any grievances related to the delivery of the entitlement in cash or kind and the quality of the grains or meals received\n(iii) In case of any grievance or deviation, the statement of such entitled person shall be recorded in public and signed in their presence. An investigation/enquiry shall be done to establish the persons responsible for the grievance/deviation and the beneficiaries of such grievance/deviation alongwith due quantification.\n(b) Recording of the written statements of the beneficiaries on any issue as well as filling of the Social Audit formats and writing reports will be done during social audit\n(c) (i) Once the social audit is completed, the findings of the social audit will be shared in a consultative process with the beneficiaries in a specially convened Gram Sabha.\n(ii) This Sabha will provide a platform to all villagers to seek and obtain further information and responses from the Social Audit Facilitators, public representatives and officials regarding the implementation of the National Food Security Act and to make appropriate recommendations for action on the identified issues.\n(d) The DGRO shall nominate a mandal level official to attend the Social Audit Gram Sabha meeting. This officer shall be responsible for deciding the action to be taken on the issues identified through the social audit process. He/she shall also make sure immediate redress of grievances during the course of meeting and ensuring that the Gram Sabha takes place in true democratic spirit in an atmosphere where everyone can speak and testify without fear. This officer will be responsible for filing a report with the District Collector as per a prescribed format.\n(e) The Social Audit Report consisting of the minutes of the Social Audit Gram Sabha, the resolution(s) passed, written and oral remarks, observations of the Social Audit Facilitators, and any other submissions made, shall be forwarded to the DGRO, concerned implementing Department(s)/Agencies and SSAAT-AP by the Social Audit Facilitators within one week of the Gram Sabha and 3 days from the Mandal Hearing for necessary action.\n(f) The concerned Department/Authority shall take appropriate follow-up action by proceeding against the persons found guilty in the Gram Sabhas and shall complete disciplinary action if any with prescribed manner. Apart from this, other complaints if any shall be resolved within 7 days of receiving the Social Audit Report.\n(g) In case of major instances of defalcation/misappropriation of grains or funds and sub-standard services, the concerned controlling authority shall initiate requisite and recovery proceedings against the concerned person/authority, apart from taking disciplinary action.\n(a) The social audit agency will periodically submit the findings of the social audit in prescribed formats to the State Food Commission, which are also hosted in the public domain through the official website developed specifically for the purpose of the Act.\n(b) State Food Commission will monitor and follow up on the action taken by the concerned officials on issues identified in the Social Audit.\n(c) The action taken report relating to the previous Social Audit shall be read out at the beginning of the meeting of each Social Audit Gram Sabha. All Action Taken Reports shall be filed by the concerned authority within a month of convening of the Social Audit to the agency.\n(a) The Social Audit will be a process independent of the implementing agency and the administrative machinery shall provide requisite information.\n(b) DGRO shall notify nodal officers in every mandal who shall ensure that records are provided to the social audit facilitators before starting the social audit process.\n(c) On completion of the social audit process at the village level, effective follow up action is to be taken consisting of:\n(i) Ensuring that responsible officers attend the Social Audit Public Meetings.\n(ii) Ensuring corrective action is taken on the Social Audit findings.\n(iii) Ensuring that appropriate action is taken any individual or group who has tried to deviate or misuse the commodities and sabotage the Scheme.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Integration with Food security allowance rules and Supplementary Nutrition Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Schedule-A\nList of places where Documents shall be Kept Open for inspection\nList of places where Documents shall be Kept Open for inspection\n[ See Rule 7(3)(b)]\nSl.No\nSl.No\nLevel at which Records related to targeted\n\t\t\t\tPublic Distribution System be maintained\nLevel at which Records related to targeted\n\t\t\t\tPublic Distribution System be maintained\nConcerned Office\nConcerned Office\nConcerned Officer\nConcerned Officer\n(1)\n(1)\n(2)\n(2)\n(3)\n(3)\n(4)\n(4)\n1.\nState level Records\nAt Commissioner of Civil Supplies Office\nDirector of Civil Supplies\n2.\nDistrict level Records\nAt District Supply Officer's Office\nDirector Supply Officer's Office\n3.\nMandal Level Records\nAt Tehsil Office/Urban local body Office\nTahsildar/ASO\n4.\nVillage level Records\nAt Gram Panchyat's Office\nVillage Development Officer/VIllage Panchayat Officer\nSchedule-B\nState Food Commissioner\nState Food Commissioner\n( See Rule 8)\nSl.No.\nSl.No.\nDesignation\nDesignation\nEligibility\nEligibility\n1.\nChairperson\nAll India Services(or) any other civil Services\n\t\t\t\t\tof the Union or State\n2.\nFive other Member\nholding a civil post under the Union or state\n\t\t\t\t\thaving knolwdge and experience in matter relating to:\nfood security, policy making and administration\n\t\t\t\t\tin the field of agriculture, civil supplies, nutrition, health\n\t\t\t\t\tor any allied field; or\nof eminence in public life with wide knowledge\n\t\t\t\t\tand experience in agriculture, law, human rights, social\n\t\t\t\t\tservice, management, nutrition, health, food policy, public\n\t\t\t\t\tadministration; (or)\nProven record of work relating to the\n\t\t\t\t\timprovement of the food and nutrition rights of the poor.\n3.\nMember-Secretary\nAn officer of the State Government not below\n\t\t\t\t\tthe rank of joint Secretary\nPreferences :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "ap250",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. (G.O. Ms. No.8, Consumer Affairs, Food & Civil Supplies (CS.I) Department, dated 18th April, 2017)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2017",
        "Short Title": "A.P. Food Security Rules, 2017",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}