Jharkhand became second state to have Food Security Atlas -Animesh Bisoee

-The Telegraph

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Jharkhand became the second state after Bihar and Odisha in eastern India to have Food Security Atlas for its rural areas prepared by Delhi-based Institute for Human Development (IHD) as part of the research initiative of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.

Odisha and Bihar had their Atlas launched in 2018.

Speaking on the need of ‘Food Security Atlas of Rural Jharkhand 2022’ launched on Sunday in Ranchi, state food and finance minister Rameshwar Oraon, said: “This document will play an important role in informing policy. Given the poor monsoon this year due to which there is a drought like situation in many districts of the state. Hence, the availability of food is an issue due to low extent of irrigation and ensuring food security is even a bigger issue wherein 75 per cent of the people need attention whose hunger needs to be eradicated.”

Oraon assured that the government would make efforts towards giving quota and green cards to the food insecure districts of Jharkhand.

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