Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Sunday that the National Food Security Act will be implemented in the remaining States next month to bring the whole country under its ambit. “The National Food Security Act is in force in 33 States/UTs, and in States of …
The govt has earmarked Rs 1,34,835 crore as food subsidy for 2016-17 The Centre has released Rs 25,834 crore as food subsidy to the Food Corporation of India (FCI), which will help in smooth procurement and distribution of grains, the food ministry said on Tuesday. The government has earmarked Rs …
Consumer Affairs and Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Thursday that by April the National Food Security Act (NFSA) was likely to cover all States and Union Territories. After one year of NFSA coming into force — till July 2014 — the implementation of the Act had started in …
Citizens can now monitor performance of officers of the Delhi Government’s Food, Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department online. Besides getting real time information about pendency and disposal of applications for providing food security ration cards by the department officers made on the website, all decisions pertaining to the applications can …
The Centre on Thursday extended by three months the deadline by which States should roll out the National Food Security Act that provides for distribution of concessional foodgrains to 75 per cent of identified beneficiaries. Under the Act, States were given time till July 4 to implement the Act but …
Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan said on Sunday only five States had fully implemented the National Food Security Act, 2013 and seven others had done so partially so far. Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Punjab have fully implemented as per the provisions of the Central Act, the Food and Public Distribution …
PATNA: The central government is committed to ensuring food to everyone by fully implementing the National Food Security Act (NFSA) across the country by July 14, said Union minister of food and consumer affairs Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday. The beneficiaries would be identified by then. But, only five states …
Poor infrastructure in the way of legal entitlement of foodgrain for poor In line with the Centre's promise to work in close coordination with state governments, the Union government is considering extending the deadline given to states for identification of beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act beyond July 5. …
This will further inflate the Centre's subsidy calculation on account of the new law, once it is implemented Congress workers celebrate the victory The central government has decided to widen the acceptability of its biggest social security initiative, the National Food Security Act, by agreeing to equally share the financial …
The projects will collectively augment the storage capacity of FCI by about 1,25,060 metric tonnes (MT), out of which 53,000 MT is likely to be completed by March 2014 Food Corporation of India (FCI) is in the process of augmenting its infrastructure in North-East to implement the National Food Security …
Centre will launch pilot project in State soon: K.V. Thomas Union Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs K.V. Thomas said here on Saturday that the Centre would soon launch the pilot project of distributing 5-kg packets of rice to consumers in Kerala through the Public Distribution System as …
New Delhi : The food ministry is finalising a proposal to rechristen the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) as Indiramma Anna Yojana after the former prime minister and Congress leader. The food security Act won't be renamed. Food minister KV Thomas said the new name for the existing TPDS has …
Procurement & distribution under new Act will not be substantially higher than ongoing PDS India made it clear at the just-concluded Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) meeting of the Committee on World Food Security in Rome that the procurement of foodgrains and distribution under the new Food Security Act will …
Global Ministerial meet seeks policy convergence for better food security Union Food Minister K.V. Thomas on Monday told the FAO Committee on World Food Security that India’s new food law would ensure equitable distribution of food grains to all sections. “India’s new Act marks a paradigm shift from the welfare …
India will present its case on its new food security legislation at the 40th ministerial conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome next week. Some WTO member-countries had questioned whether India’s stockholding to support 67 per cent of its population with subsidised food grains will distort international trade …
The Act as been enacted in Haryana, Himachal, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Mizoram and Delhi The Centre will review preparations for implementation of the National Food security Act with the States and UTs in a meeting here on Tuesday. The Act which got accent of President Pranab Mukherjee on September, 12 after …
Congress-ruled states like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Mizoram and Delhi have already started implementing the National Food Security Act The United Progressive Alliance government will on Tuesday review with states preparations for the implementation of its flagship National Food Security Act Tuesday, a statement said Monday. The bill, a …
To ensure food security law is rolled out smoothly in most states before the next general elections, the Centre has called a meeting of state food ministers and secretaries later this month. This is the first meeting called by the Union Food Ministry after the bill was cleared by Parliament …
Government assures members that it won’t tinker with federal structure of governance The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved by voice vote the National Food Security Bill after the government assured members that it had no intention of tinkering with the federal structure of governance through the legislation. Members were informed …
We made such a law so that nobody goes hungry, says Sonia Gandhi Despite the delay in passage of the Food Security Bill in Parliament, the ambitious programme was launched by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday with the promise that it would reach two-thirds of the country’s 125-crore population …
