Food Policy

Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The SC commissioners and the UPA government don’t seem to see eye to eye on anything in the food case except one — continuation of the public distribution of cards to those living above the poverty line (APL). But the two have different reasons to support subsidized grains being supplied through this scheme.

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Rapped by the Supreme Court for letting foodgrain rot, the government is considering options to ease pressure on Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns by targeted distribution of additional stock at cheaper rates. An empowered Group of Ministers (eGoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, will meet on Thursday to approve the Centre's counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court on creation

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How will the proposed National Food Security Act impact livelihoods, cropping patterns and productivity?

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The government on Tuesday assured the Lok Sabha that it would honour the decision of the Supreme Court on free distribution of foodgrains to the poor. Replying to an impromptu debate initiated by Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj on the issue, agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar said, “This government will honour the decision of the Supreme Court.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court slammed the government on Tuesday, expressing anguish at its casual attitude to reports of millions of tonnes of foodgrain rotting in the open when millions are going hungry. Rejecting agriculture minister Sharad Pawar’s remark that it was impossible to implement the SC’s ‘‘suggestion’’ to give away the grain to the poor, the Bench said, “Officials will do well

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Union Food Processing Industries Minister Subodh Kant Sahai said on Tuesday that the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) is being set up on 100 acres of land at Kundli in Sonepat, Haryana.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rapped Union Food Minister Sharad Pawar for interpreting its judicial “order” to distribute free-of-cost foodgrain to the poor as a “suggestion” he found practically impossible to implement. Pawar had publicly reacted to what he believed to be a “suggestion” from the Supreme Court Bench, saying that it may be a little too far fetched.

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Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union government will respect the Supreme Court's decision on free distribution of grain to the poor, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. “This government respects the decisions of all courts and will also pay attention to the members' suggestions,” he said, responding to the issue raised by Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj.

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it clear that its August 12 directive to distribute grain at “no cost” or “very low cost” was an order and not a suggestion as made out by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. Hearing a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties relating to the streamlining of the Public Distribution System, A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Union government to inform it of the steps taken to preserve the remaining grain procured. Hearing a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties relating to the streamlining of the PDS, a Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma, quoting the court commissioner's report, said 50,000 tonnes of wheat had deteriorated, and wa

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