{"id":248587,"date":"2023-06-19T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=248587"},"modified":"2023-06-19T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:21:12","slug":"states-look-for-alternatives-as-centre-restricts-fci-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/states-look-for-alternatives-as-centre-restricts-fci-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"States look for alternatives as Centre restricts FCI purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cStates look for alternatives as Centre restricts FCI purchase\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>19th June 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Government has<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> recently announced its decision to reduce the quantity of foodgrains a bidder can purchase under the Open Market Sale Scheme (Domestic).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After this, several States have started taking steps to ensure the supply of foodgrains is distributed under the Public Distribution System but not covered under the National Food Security Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is an Open Market Sale Scheme(OMSS)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the Open<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Market Sale Scheme<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) sells surplus stocks of wheat and rice at pre-determined prices through e-auction in the open market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To enhance the supply of food grains, especially wheat, during the lean season and thereby moderate the open market prices, specially in the deficit regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What has the government announced about OMSS?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Government has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reduced the quantity of foodgrains a bidder can purchase under the Open Market Sale Scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been decided that the quantity that a bidder can purchase in a single bid under the OMSS(D) from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) will range from 10-100 tonnes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, the maximum quantity allowed was 3,000 tonnes per bid for a buyer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has said that this has been done to curb inflation and to accommodate more small and marginal buyers and to ensure wider reach of the scheme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cStates look for alternatives as Centre restricts FCI purchase\u201d published in The Hindu on 19th June 2023 What is the News? The Central Government has recently announced its decision to reduce the quantity of foodgrains a bidder can purchase under the Open Market Sale Scheme (Domestic). After&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/states-look-for-alternatives-as-centre-restricts-fci-purchase\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">States look for alternatives as Centre restricts FCI purchase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-248587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}