Punjab food department offers to call open tenders to ascertain logistics cost of doorstep ration delivery scheme:

The food and civil supplies department, in a proposal before the Punjab government, has offered to call open tenders to ascertain the logistics cost of the doorstep delivery of wheat or wheat flour to 1.5 crore beneficiaries and has asked the state’s entity in the cooperative sector Markfed to take forward chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s ambitious project.
Earlier, in a communique sent to apprise the finance department and take its approval, the food department reportedly proposed an additional expenditure of ₹ 400 crores for grinding of wheat into flour and taking it to the doorsteps of beneficiaries.

Under the scheme, five-kilogram of wheat or wheat flour is supplied to 40 lakh households per month (1.5 crore beneficiaries) at a cost of ₹ 2 per kilogram.