Food Security Act

the report also criticised the handling of the Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration projects. (File Image)

There are many methods of sustainable agriculture, and some common ones include agroforestry to integrate crops and trees, crop cover…

February 12, 2024 12:04 IST

WTO, subsidy, grain purchase, trade distortion, global food crisis, export curbs, food security

India plans to push WTO to ease subsidy rules on grain purchase

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will make a case for quickly resolving the subsidy issue unconditionally and before all others,…

January 19, 2024 10:32 IST

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to strengthen the resilience of the agriculture sector as it employs more than half of the country’s population.

Our lifestyle’s biggest problem – Hunger. India can end it by 2030 – Here’s how

India has already shown its dominance over its peer nations through the National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 aimed at…

Updated: June 8, 2023 13:00 IST

India paving way for global food security; food production, distribution, schemes framework exemplary

On the domestic front, India has made tremendous progress over the years towards achieving the SDGs as measured by important…

Updated: November 8, 2022 17:49 IST

Hunger index reads India wrong

Apart from problems with nomenclature and weights, GHI’s assessment of the undernourished population is on shaky grounds,

October 31, 2022 04:30 IST

Odisha, UP & Andhra top three in implementation of NFSA

Under NFSA, more than 800 million people receive highly subsidised food grains — rice at Rs 3/kg, wheat at Rs…

July 6, 2022 02:45 IST

In the second advance estimate released in February, the production was seen at 316.06 MT.

Third advance estimate: Food grain output seen at record 314 million tonne

Production lower than previous estimate on lower wheat production

May 20, 2022 06:30 IST

Launched in 2020 as part of the Covid-19 relief measure, under the PMGKAY scheme 5 kg of grains are provided free every month besides highly subsidised foodgrain to more than 81 beneficiaries under National Food Security Act.

Rice allocation by government raised under free ration scheme

“To mitigate scarcity like situation and to ensure availability of sufficient stocks as per stocking norms, it has been decided…

May 4, 2022 03:15 IST

WTO ministerial meeting: India seeks fixed remedy for food security scheme

India will continue to work with other developing nations and put up a united fight for these demands, and many…

April 28, 2022 02:15 IST

There are also discussions around recommending higher taxation on foods that have sugar, fat, salt and front-of-the pack labelling in their endeavor to tackle rising obesity.

Nutritional awareness: Label packaged food, but with caution

Nutritional awareness, apart from eating patterns and weather, must be considered, lest traditional Indian food be branded bad under the…

April 26, 2022 04:30 IST

Free ration scheme may stay through FY23; PMGKAY to cost exchequer Rs 1.6 trillion this fiscal

Separately, it may also spend about Rs 1.5 trillion on food subsidy in the year, about Rs 50,000 crore less…

April 19, 2022 03:30 IST

The PMGKAY was first rolled out as a comprehensive relief package in March 2020, ‘to reach out to the poorest of the poor’ and ‘help them fight the battle against Covid-19’.

Food subsidy stood at Rs 2.94 trillion in FY22, Rs 1.47 trillion spent on PMGKAY

The budgetary provisioning for food subsidy last fiscal was less than Rs 5.4 trillion allocated in 2020-21, out of which…

April 14, 2022 03:30 IST

India kept extreme poverty below 1% despite pandemic: IMF paper

The paper presents estimates of poverty and consumption inequality in India for each of the years from 2004-05 through 2020-21.…

April 7, 2022 04:30 IST

The Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution tabled a report in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Parliamentary panel says food subsidy still very high, scope for further reduction

The panel also regretted that after 24 years of launching of Decentralized Procurement Scheme (DCP), the same has been adopted…

March 22, 2022 20:25 IST

Ration Cards Portability: Millions get subsidised foodgrain at places of work under NFSA

Along with 10 digits of a ration card, two digits were appended to create unique member IDs of each beneficiary…

February 9, 2022 04:45 IST

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Food Security Act roll-out off track on online delay

Few states have completed computerisation of beneficiary list

March 7, 2015 00:21 IST

Govt to extend deadline for food security Act rollout

Most states yet to digitise data on beneficiaries, godowns, fair price shops

February 14, 2015 00:46 IST

‘Food Security Act will weaken PDS’

Senior BJP leader and former food minister Shanta Kumar, who headed a high-level committee on restructuring…

January 23, 2015 00:15 IST

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