The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
AGARTALA: Tripura government has vented its reservation over some provisions in the draft Food Security Bill even as it welcomed the move of Congress led UPA government. The government will not accept provisions of debarring 25 percent rural population and 50 percent urban population from PDS ambit, said Food and …
The PSU oil marketing companies Thursday hiked petrol prices by `1.80 per litre in New Delhi to offset the increase in the cost of crude oil imports. The prices will vary across the country due to local taxes. Among metros, the hike will be the maximum in Chennai, where it …
The much-awaited National Food Security Bill will be introduced in the winter session of Parliament incorporating some major changes recommended by the National Advisory Council, chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas told The Hindu on Sunday that …
With Planning Commission’s decision to de-link entitlements for poor based on Suresh Tendulkar’s report casting uncertainty on beneficiaries of the proposed National Food Security Bill, Food Minister KV Thomas clarified that the Bill would not be re-opened for discussion and entitlements would be restricted to “priority” category only in the …
The Union government is inclined to examine specific requirements of States individually while implementing the proposed legislation on food security. When it was brought to his attention that crores of people in the State would be left out of the Public Distribution System as the ceiling for coverage of urban …
PDS no prerequisite for grain entitlement to general-category families. The contours of the Food Security Bill are firming up, what with the proposed legislation now stipulating a monthly minimum of seven kilograms of grains per person for the country’s priority households. In fact, this category of families — with a …
Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happen, the state has to come up with an appropriate and effective bill on food and nutrition …
With only a few States having sent in their comments on the Food Ministry's draft National Food Security Bill, 2011, till the closing date on Friday, the Centre is planning to extend the date by a month or two, official sources said. Despite Minister of State for Food and Consumer …
GUWAHATI: “There is leakage in the public distribution system (PDS) in the Northeast. But it is the responsibility of the governments of the States concerned to check the leakage in PDS. The Central Government has no role to play in this, it only provides the PDS items to the States. …
The central government has prepared a draft National Food Security Bill (NFSB). This draft, aside from ignoring all the demands of the right to food campaign, junks many essential provisions of the “NAC draft”, and even dilutes existing entitlements.
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court (HC) on Thursday asked the state government to specify what steps it has taken to implement the schemes that are introduced to make the public distribution system (PDS) effective. This status report is in connection with an order passed last year. In 2010, the HC …
The Government has sought comments on the proposed Food Security Bill, which seeks to provide legal entitlement to subsidised foodgrains for up to three-fourth of the rural population and half of the urban households. The Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs has placed the draft National Food Security Bill, 2011 …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Chief Secretaries of all the States to specify how much additional foodgrains were required for them under the Public Distribution System to ensure that there was no starvation death. A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma, passing orders on a petition …
This is a report from Office of the Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners on food-nutrition insecurity and starvation in 15 villages of Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh displaced due to the Sardar Sarovar Project. This report is on food-nutrition insecurity and starvation in 15 villages of Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh, …
In an attempt to curtail the ballooning subsidy bill, an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet on September 16 to take a decision on curtailing the supply of subsidised LPG cylinders to domestic households to between 4 and 6 per year. The government …
The Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan, Delhi is a network for about thirty organisations working on issues related to food security, especially through the Public Distribution System (PDS), in the State of Delhi. While there are many problems with the way the PDS is currently functioning in Delhi, in recent times, …
WHEN UNION Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar announced a bumper harvest last month, “the highest since 1947”, commodities markets perked up, sniffing food export opportunities. With a record 236 million tonnes of foodgrain produced in 2010-11, government godowns are bursting at the seams. Mountains of grain lie in the open, as …
Total food security for the poor is the primary goal of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government. And it is convinced that universal public distribution system (PDS) ensures better food security. As a major step in this direction, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has ordered supply of rice free of …
“Kemathi accho” translates to “ how are you” in Odiya, said one of the local volunteers to me as our train made its way from Raipur in Chhattisgarh to Odisha through dried up riverbeds and parched lands. A summer survey to study the ground realities of the Public Distribution System …
Even as results of a pilot study on direct cash transfers in lieu of rations are still awaited, postal staff in Delhi are getting slum-dwellers to open accounts. “We are being asked to pay Rs 50 and submit two photos, after which money will be transferred in our post office …
