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96,000 VGF cards to be issued next week

Flood victims in 6 districts to get those

RAFIQ HASAN
The government will issue 96,000 Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) cards from next week to provide emergency food aid in six districts that were worst affected by floods.
Ten kilo rice would be provided against each card, which would be additional to the amount given under regular VGF programme.
Sources in food and disaster management ministry said 16,000 cards would be issued among the flood victims in each of those six districts. The districts are Netrokona, Kishoreganj, Sunamganj, Hobiganj, Brahmanbaria and Sirajganj.
The emergency VGF programme in those districts starts in the last week of
this month. It will merge with the routine VGF programme and continue till December this year, the source added.
The regular VGF in another 33 floodhit districts will start from the month of September.
Meanwhile, the World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday elaborated its plans and programme for providing food assistance worth $ 73.69 million in Bangladesh. The UN organisation has committed 1.91 lakh tonnes of food assistance to Bangladesh for the next six months.
A five-member WFP delegation led by its Bangladesh Resident Representative Douglas Casson Coutts yesterday met Chowdhury FROM PAGE 1
Kamal Ibne Yusuf, food and disaster management minister, at his office and submitted the plans and programme.
According to the plans, WFP would provide 1.68 lakh tonnes of wheat or rice, 11,460 tonnes of biscuits, 3,615 tonnes of blended food, 4,000 tonnes of pulses, 3,000 tonnes of vegetable oils and 500 tonnes of salt.
Under the programme, 33 lakh people will have immediate relief through non-governmental organisations (NGOs). One kg rice, 150 gram biscuits, 0.25 kg pulse, 0.15 litre vegetable oil and 0.025 kg salt have been earmarked for each of those people a day for 15 days.
Fifty lakh people or 10 lakh households would get general food ration of 30 kg wheat or rice a month under Vulnerable Group Rehabilitation (VGR) and Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) programmes.
Children numbering 1.80 lakh from 6 to 36 months of age and 1.20 lakh pregnant and nursing women will get 80gm blended food every day from September to December.
Eight lakh primary school children will get 75gm biscuit a day from September to December this year through Department of Primary Education and NGOs.
Under the total VGF programme, the government would provide 10 kg rice to each of 30 lakh flood affected families while the WFP would give 30 kg of rice to 10 lakh families.
The WFP officials at yesterday's meeting also discussed the coordination between the government and WFP food assistance programme. Food and disaster management ministry decided to run the VGF programme on alternative basis.
Sources said disaster management
ministry has a ready stock of one lakh metric tonnes of rice for VGF programme. Another 50,000 tonnes would be required for completing the programme.
The ministry is thinking of diverting food from other food assistance programmes of the government and donor agencies to meet the additional requirement, the source added.