Members of Parliament have been given special allocation for test relief under the rural infrastructure maintenance programme taken by the Disaster Management and Relief Ministry.
Each of 300 MPs will get 140 metric tonnes of wheat while 50 women MPs for reserved seats will get 50 metric tonnes of wheat each.
The ministry has issued an order asking the department of disaster management to allocate food grains to the lawmakers.
The department of disaster management also issued an order which was sent to deputy commissioners last week for releasing the allotment of food grains for the projects to be submitted by the MPs within June 10.
According to the ministry’s order, food grains allocated for the programme will be used for maintenance of rural infrastructures such roads, grounds of educational institutions, places of worship and rickety bridges or culverts.
The officials concerned said physical work of small projects would be completed and food grains must be distributed among the beneficiaries by June 30, the last day of the current fiscal year.
Earlier, the ministry also allocated 300 metric tonnes of rice to each of the MPs of general seats while women MPs for reserved seats got 100 metric tonnes of rice each under Food for Work programme.
Physical work of the projects still goes on against the allocations given in last April.