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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Editorial: Food for thought Latest NSS data adds to evidence against food Act December 26, 2014 00:47 IST
Questions of Justice A special bench on social justice is welcome but definitional questions must be addressed first December 5, 2014 02:33 IST
Ram Vilas Paswan sets deadline to meet Food Security Act standards Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today asked 11 states and Union Territories that have implemented Food Security Act… November 1, 2014 20:06 IST
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