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 …
Sonia says the Bill is a fulfilment of her party’s promise towipe out hunger and malnutrition. The Lok Sabha on Monday night passed the ambitious National Food Security Bill, 2013 that seeks to provide highly subsidised food grains to nearly 70 per cent of the population of the country. Dubbed …
Minister of Food and Civil Supplies Dr Najarul Islam has said that the Food Security Ordinance 2013 to be implemented in the State soon, will cover a population of 2.52 crore of 52 lakh families. Addressing an awareness meeting organised by the Nalbari District Congress Committee at the Nalbari Natya …
Read text of the landmark National Food Security Bill, 2013. This promises to give right to the country's 80 crore people to get 5 kg of foodgrains every month at Rs 1-3 per kg. Read full text of the Bill (Download PDF) RELATED DOCUMENTS & ARTICLES Ordinance: The National Food …
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 …
In pursuance of the Centre’s initiative to ensure food for all, Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday launched the National Food Security Ordinance (NFSO) 2013 commemorating the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi. As per the provisions of the Ordinance, a person belonging to priority households would be entitled to receive 5 kg …
Coinciding with the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today launched the National Food Security Ordinance-2013 – by distributing highly subsidised rice and priority ration cards to 11 beneficiaries picked from the capital region as well as Papum Pare district. “A country …
The UPA’s food security legislation, introduced first as an ordinance and then as a bill pending discussion in Parliament, comes at a time when BJP-led Chhattisgarh already has a law in place. Each legislation is similar to the other in some respects and differs in others. PM hopeful of early …
Delhi will become the first to launch the food security programme on Tuesday to coincide with the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The scheme intends to benefit at least 5.1 lakh families or 32 lakh people in Delhi in the first phase. The scheme will eventually cover …
State govt says the ordinance will lead to lower entitlement of foodgrains from the current 35 kg to 25 kg The Gujarat government has alleged that the Centre's National Food Security Ordinance (NFSO), which awaits Parliament approval is fraught with inconsistencies and will neither fulfill the nutritional needs nor will …
Two days before the parliamentary debate, food minister KV Thomas on Sunday ruled out a demand from various political parties to universalise the public distribution system (PDS) against 67% coverage envisaged in the National Food Security Bill, 2013. “After long deliberations in the parliamentary standing committee, we have decided to …
Will study the system, figure out innovative ways to distribute food subsidy As the government gets ready to implement the ambitious National Food Security Ordinance, India’s first-ever independent evaluation office has started evaluating the targeted public distribution system to find innovative ways to distribute the food subsidy. “We have to …
Amidst protest from Opposition parties such as the BJP and AIADMK, the government on Wednesday introduced the National Food Security Bill, 2013, in the Lok Sabha. Food minister KV Thomas, while introducing the new Bill after withdrawing the ordinance which was promulgated on July 5, assured the states that the …
Scheme will be launched in December, will benefit 75% rural and 50% urban dwellers The Maharashtra government would launch the United Progressive Alliance’s ambitious food security scheme from December in the state. Of the state's 112 million population, 70 million beneficiaries would be covered under the scheme. The government proposes …
This National Food Security Bill, 2013 bill introduced in the Lok Sabha replaces the ordinance which was promulgated on July 5 and promises to give right to the country's 80 crore people to get 5 kg of foodgrains every month at Rs 1-3 per kg. RELATED ARTICLES Ordinance: The National …
Scheme will be launched in December, will benefit 75% rural and 50% urban dwellers About 70 million of the 112 million residents of Maharashtra will be covered under the UPA's ambitious food security scheme, when the state launches the programme in December. The state government proposes to replace the yellow, …
Arunachal Pradesh will launch the National Food Security scheme on August 20 coinciding with the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. This was divulged by AICC in-charge for Arunachal Pradesh, Luizinho Falerio. Flanked by State Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and MPs Mukut Mithi and Takam Sanjoy, the senior …
The Orissa high court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government and Centre while admitting a PIL accusing the state of illegally diverting PDS rice meant for BPL families. "The division bench of Chief Justice C Nagappan and Justice I Mohanty directed the chief secretary and food and civil …
Ram Kumar, 36, a construction worker from Bihar's Madhubani district, does not have a ration card although he falls below the poverty line. His attempts to get a ration card have run into a maze of official delays. Denied subsidised foodgrain from the public distribution system (PDS) without a card, …
The Act guarantees free nutritious meals or take-home rations in anganwadis, schools and other institutions Chhattisgarh government had amended its Food Security Act 2012 to add 'nutrition' as it had been providing nutritious items to the beneficiaries under the scheme. State's food minister Punnulal Mohile on Tuesday tabled the amendment …
A day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked the party-ruled states to implement national food security Bill in ‘letter and spirit’, food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the biggest challenge is to improve the existing targeted public distribution system (TPDS) so that highly subsidised foodgrain reaches the masses. “The …
