The Bihar CM demanded that apart from the proposed two women, one schedule caste and one schedule tribe members, the National and State Food Commission should also have one member each from OBC and minority community. Besides, at least five of the total seven members should be from the rural background. He appreciated the Standing Committee for recommending that a simple and fair way of setting up state-wise exclusion ration should be prescribed in a transparent manner in consultation with the state government. This should be done so as to enable the central government to determine the inter state food grains allocations under PDS with cut offs set in such a way that 25 per cent of rural population and 50 per cent of urban population are above respective cut offs at the national level, Kumar said.
