Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
The authors analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. They compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on another for food imports. …
The Delhi Legislative Assembly today on the first day of the Monsoon Session passed a resolution on the Food Security Bill, moved by Mukesh Sharma, Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit. He said that once the Bill becomes law, it would ensure wheat, rice and coarse wheat to …
If the Opposition parties co-operated with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the end to pass the long-pending Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha, it was because they had little choice, with the government posing it as the ultimate pro-poor measure. But the fact that the Opposition failed to …
Lok Sabha passed the National Food Security Bill 2013 on Monday after a series of amendments, including one-year time for states to identify beneficiaries and fixing annual grain allocation to the states. Under the new Bill, the annual allocation of gain for states have been estimated at 55 million tonne. …
Punjab has decided not to change the name of its flagship Atta-Dal Scheme even as it readies to implement the Food Security Bill. The state will be revising its Atta-Dal Scheme to provide wheat to beneficiaries at a rate lower than Rs 2 per kg proposed by the UPA Government …
Israeli researchers engineer drought resistant plants that could be a game-changer in the global food crisis, requiring less water, yielding bigger harvests, and staying fresh longer. Professor of Biology Shimon Gepstein of Haifa's Technion University pioneered research that may represent a major advance in food supplies worldwide. According to Technion …
The BPL families have been saving about Rs 800 per month after the launch of the Anna Bhagya scheme. The Karnataka government will distribute ragi, jowar and wheat at Rs 1 per kg to the families living below the poverty line (BPL) across the state from October 2 under its …
NewDelhi:The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the food security bill, barely eight months ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha election amid a fierce competition between Congress and the opposition to daub themselves in populist colours. Termed a “gamechanger” by UPA-2, the food security bill went through a protracted passage in …
Maharashtra government is all set to roll out the ambitious food security scheme in the state from early December which will benefit about 7.17 crore people, a state minister has said. This includes 4.70 crore people in the rural areas (76.32 per cent) and 2.30 crore in urban areas (45.34 …
The tragic episode in a school in Bihar, where 23 children died because of contaminated food, is unacceptable. But it is also a fact that the midday meal scheme, under which cooked food is compulsorily provided to children in government schools across India, is too important and critical to be …
Jammu, August 22: Expressing concern over alleged reports of mismanagement in the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme, the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry had written to Education Secretaries of all states, including Jammu and Kashmir, for an indepth review of this Centrally sponsored scheme. The ministry has stressed …
The village looks as if the grim reaper paid a surprise visit. One can still hear the faint cries of wailing mothers. It has been five days since the mid-day meal contaminated with a deadly insecticide served at the Gandaman lower primary school killed 23 children on 16 July. Twenty-seven …
Taking note of a report published in Newsline on Wednesday, the Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi government and the three civic agencies to look into the issue of why the midday meals supplied to students in schools run by the three civic agencies of the capital are not …
Stratagem to promote improvement based on the cultivating, nurturing, harvesting, jamboree, processing, collecting period and diversifying of acclimatized species implicitly target households as principal beneficiaries in haor region of Bangladesh. This paper suggests that the cultivation and domestication of acclimatized species can play important roles for enhancing food security in …
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) issued findings from the annual Global Food Security Index, a first-of-its-kind ranking tool to comprehensively measure food security and monitor the ongoing impact of agriculture investments, collaborations and policies around the world. Commissioned by DuPont, the 2013 Index expands on the 25 previously identified food …
With heavy rainfall and landslides damaging the road network, famine looms large in the hill districts of Doti, Bajura and Bajhang. According to a source, famine conditions prevail in the Bungal area of Bajhang, the southern belt of Doti, and Bichhyan VDC of Bajura. Most of the roads in these …
The Green Revolution reduced hunger also in India, but it is not enough to raise yields, other, complementary interventions in the food system and other sectors are also important says this 2013 edition of FAO's State of Food & Agriculture report. Malnutrition in all its forms – undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, …
In 2012, the G8 launched a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an alliance of G8 countries, developing country governments and private companies. The G8 will return to the subject during the UK’s Presidency in 2013. As well as hosting the G8 summit on 17-18 June, on 8 June …
This study conducted by Accountability Initiative found several inefficiencies and widespread irregularities in implementation of the flagship Mid-Day Meal scheme in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. This study attempts to fill this gap in the context of the Mid Day Meal scheme (MDM). It employs a unique method to track fund …
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of performance audit of Storage Management and Movement of Food Grains in Food Corporation of India. The performance audit was conducted through test audit of records of the Corporation and the Ministry of Consumers Affairs, Food and …