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 …
Food and nutritional security (FNS) is a complex issue given its reliance on climatic as well as non-climatic factors that are intertwined and interdependent. When climate change is superimposed, it further worsens the situation as food production, one of the critical ecosystem services, is impacted the most. This position paper …
The agriculture sector witnessed record foodgrains output of 257.44 million tonnes in this year enabling the country to become world's largest rice exporter for the first time, but the monsoon played spoilsport dashing farmers' hopes of an encore in 2013. A hefty increase of Rs 1 lakh crore in farm …
Here’s some more food for thought for Vilas Muttemwar, chairman of the parliamentary panel reviewing the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) – the dream project of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. An expert panel led by Ashok Gulati, chairman of the Commission of Agricultural Costs (CACP), has come up with an …
Chances of the food security Bill becoming a law in the near future have dimmed with Parliament’s standing committee on food not submitting its recommendations in the winter session, which ended on Thursday. “There is no possibility of submitting the report in the winter session of Parliament, as all the …
A bill to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This Act …
The UPA government’s food security bill will take more time for enactment as the parliamentary standing committee on food has expressed its inability to submit report in the current session. The committee chairman, Vilas Muttemwar, who had earlier hoped that the report will be submitted in the current session, said …
Dilli Annshree Yojana integrated with UID-Aadhar to ensure direct cash transfer in the no-frills accounts of the beneficiaries, is the first-ever food security scheme in the country which aims at reaching a large number of vulnerable families who have not been contacted by any government agency so far, said Food …
Protesting against the Centre’s proposal to extend the cash transfer scheme to the Public Distribution System, the Right to Food Campaign on Saturday demanded that the government bring in a comprehensive national food security Act that provides for universal PDS. Ensuring nutrition through various measures should be the focus of …
The pilot project at Kotkasim, Rajasthan has revealed loopholes, they say Sampat Rai is a resident of the Kotkasim block of Rajasthan’s Alwar district, where the Cash for Kerosene Scheme (CFKS), an experiment with cash payment of kerosene subsidies, was launched last year on a pilot basis. Mr. Rai is …
The government today informed Parliament that the process to implement direct transfer of cash subsidy on kerosene sold through public distribution system (PDS) has been initiated in 11 identified states and Union territories. In written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain …
Around 40,000 fair price shops (FPS) across Odisha downed their shutters on Tuesday in protest against Central government’s plan to transfer cash subsidy directly to the FPS consumers. “In response to call given by the All India Fair Price Dealers’ Federation (AIFPDF), all the fair price shops across the state …
This report titled, “Human Rights in India – Status Report 2012,” provided a general overview of the most critical human rights issues in India. It included: information gathered from the various consultations held across India from August to October 2011; relevant case studies; WGHR’s initial response to the Government of …
Despite ensuring ample availability of food, existence of food insecurity at the micro-level in the country has remained a formidable challenge for India. The recently introduced National Food Security Bill (NFSB) aims to address this and marks a paradigm shift in addressing the problem of food security—from the current welfare …
This study is an attempt to study the issue of food security in 25 villages in three blocks in Nainital district, Uttarakhand. Further attempts have been made to study of penetration of various government schemes like PDS, ICDS, MDM, MNERGS, Annapoorna, and Antodaya in these villages. This study reveals the …
This S R Hashim Committee report on urban poor submitted to UPA government in December 2012 set the criteria for identifying the poor living in urban areas for various government schemes.
New Delhi Differences have cropped up between the Planning Commission and food ministry on the issue of creation of two million tonne capacity silos through the public- private partnership (PPP) mode. Sources say while Food Corporation of India (FCI), the nodal agency to implement the project, has been insisting on …
Rangarajan Panel recommendations on decontrol of sugar industry discussed Union Food & Consumer Affairs Minister K.V. Thomas met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday and sought a review of the open-ended foodgrains procurement policy. He also discussed the Rangarajan Panel recommendations on decontrol of sugar industry, the National Food Security …
New Delhi In a bid to check diversion of foodgrains to the open market, the food ministry is planning to launch a cash transfer system for poor families. The plan, a first, will be done under the public distribution system (PDS) in six union territories in the next three months. …
Agartala: Left-ruled Tripura on Thursday strongly opposed the central government’s proposal to provide direct transfer of food subsidy in cash to people, currently accessible through the public distribution system (PDS). To check the leakage and diversions, an alternate model of direct transfer of food subsidy in cash to the consumers …
New Delhi The Centre’s plan to introduce the National Food Security Bill, which envisages distribution of subsidised foodgrains to more than 63% of the population, in the upcoming winter season of Parliament is unlikely to happen. This is because of a large number of petitions received by the parliamentary panel …
