PDS

One Nation One Ration Card ensures that National Food Security Act beneficiaries can lift their entitled foodgrain from any Fair Price Shop, anywhere in India using existing ration card

Govt merges certain benefits of PMGKAY into PDS

This is because 79 per cent of them avail PDS only at their home locations, a new study has found

However, this year, traders and market sources are hopeful that there could be a 10-15 per cent rise in wheat acreage

As on September 16, FCI has approximately 22.45 million tonnes of rice and 24.09 million tonnes of wheat in the central pool

Academics at the Public Services Lab are hard at work trying to optimise logistics for foodgrain supply chains across Indian states

As of August 16, the government has rice stocks of around 26.35 million tonnes in the Central pool

He was an excellent analytical economist and his is a great loss to the profession of economics vis-a-vis research and policy, writes S Mahendra Dev

The Centre has proposed to allow primary agriculture credit societies (PACS) to undertake activities like dealership of petroleum products, running PDS shops, etc

The model bylaws will enable PACS to offer economic activities other than credit which includes developing cold-storage facilities in villages, running PDS shops and locker facilities for depositors

Some beneficiaries complain of abdominal discomfort, gastritis, diarrhoea and nausea after eating fortified rice

The scope and budget of cheap ration schemes rose since Independence but effect it should have had on poor remained limited due to ineffective delivery systems, selfish elements, PM Modi said.

Focus should instead be more on diversified diets to address the problem, it says

After today, extension, the additional subsidy requirement under PMGKAY-3 at the current rate should swell to over Rs 90,000 crore, including Rs 26,000 crore for the first two months

Workforce is facing grim reality of hunger as many people do not carry ration cards with them.

Punjab's Food and Civil Supplies Department officials on Tuesday conducted a raid at two private mills and recovered 5,200 bags of rice meant to be distributed under Public Distribution System (PDS)

The Rajasthan government has decided to give 30 per cent of the new PDS shops to women, according to an official statement on Wednesday

The issue assumes importance after the starvation death of a girl in UP and information given to Parliamentary standing committee on labour that migrant workers without ration cards didn't get food

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the benificiaries will be given five kg of wheat per person and one kg of gram per family under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana as well as the NFSA

The Covid-19 pandemic has also highlighted the power of collectivised problem solving, said NITI Aayog CEO