In the national capital, the scheme will be launched by UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit at a function at Talkatora Stadium. The identified beneficiaries will start getting highly subsidised food grains from the 1st of next month.
In Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupender Singh Hooda will launch the scheme at Panipat today, in the first phase. Our correspondent reports that in Haryana, today on launch of the National Food Security Scheme in the first phase the “Antoyoda Ann Yojana” families and all BPL families will be given benefit of the scheme. In September the scheme would be implemented throughout the state after scrutiny of initial list of beneficiaries. The Antoyada families will get 35 kilogram wheat whereas BPL families will get 5 kilogram wheat per member of the family at nominal price of 2 rupees per kilogram.The wheat would be distributed through 9 thousand 1 hundred 74 fair price shops already operational in the state.The ambitious scheme of central governemnt will benefit one crore 26 lakh 49 thousand people of the state.In rural areas 90 lakh 28 thousand people will be benefited whereas in urban areas the number of beneficiaries will be 36 lakh 21 thousand.

In Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna will launch the scheme at the Nagar Nigam, Town Hall in Dehradun today.