IDUKKI: To ensure food security to tribespeople living in remote forest areas, the civil supplies department has begun a project to distribute ration food items at their doorstep.
According to officials, in the Covid-19 pandemic period most tribes people living in forest areas are reluctant to venture outside to purchase goods and in this situation, the new decision would ensure food security to people in the region.
Devikulam taluk supply officer P K Shajimon said that presently 420 tribal families under Devikulam taluk were included in the scheme. “As per the ration at doorstep project, every month the civil supplies officials will reach the remote tribal settlements in the district and distribute ration food items to the tribespeople.
The project will be implemented in association with tribal and forest departments” said Shajimon. “We hope the ration at doorstep project will ensure food security to them,” he added.
