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 …
Continuous rise in prices of rice in the open market has forced households to lower their consumption. According to a latest Government survey, trends also show an increasing reliance on ration shops to buy rice and other food grains at controlled rates. According to the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) …
The government on Thursday said it proposed to restructure the Food Corporation of India that procured, stored and distributed foodgrain to identified beneficiaries under the Targeted Public Distribution System. Presenting his budget proposals for the food sector, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government was committed to reducing transportation …
Price stabilisation fund to tackle inflation In a bid to boost farm production and cut post-harvest losses, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced a slew of measures which included concessional loans to landless growers, a new national scheme to promote irrigation, a separate television channel for farmers. Delivering his maiden …
GDP is expected to grow in the range of 5.4-5.9 per cent in 2014-15. There are downward risks to the economy arising from poor monsoon, external environment and poor investment climate, states the Economic Survey 2014 tabled in the Lok Sabha today. The Survey calls for putting public finance on …
India has toughened its stance at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the slow progress of food security agreement reached at the Bali ministerial in December last year, making it clear at a crucial meeting in Geneva that the country will move forward on the trade facilitation agreement only when …
The government has declared the Capital free of blue kerosene, and many have switched over to cooking gas. However, some continue to use the fuel, now overpriced and being smuggled in from other States, out of necessity Last month, the Delhi Government declared the Capital the first “kerosene-free” city in …
Economic survey of Punjab is prepared by the Economic and Statistical Organisation, Department of Planning every year which is presented in the budget session of State Vidhan Sabha. It analyses the important economic activities and achievements of the Government during the previous year. The information related to various socio-economic sectors …
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 …
The Department of Food and Civil Supply is all set to implement the National Food Security Scheme (NFSS) from July 1. Around 96 per cent out of a total of 10, 83, 978 new ration cards have been distributed among intended beneficiaries of the NFSS in the State, said State …
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 …
The National Food Security Act was supposed to be implemented in Assam from June 1 but this could not be achieved due to certain technical hurdles. On the other hand, 52 lakh families have already been given beneficiaries identity cards. The first hurdle in the implementation of the Act is …
Economic Survey of Maharashtra is prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning Department every year for presentation in the Budget Session of the State Legislature. The present publication for the year 2013-14 is the 53rd issue in the series. The information related to various socio-economic sectors of the …
Project soon for each to have access to sufficient food Odisha will soon launch a zero hunger challenge project in collaboration with the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP). Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday gave a green signal to the project proposal whose objective is to eliminate hunger in …
World Food Programme Begins Study On E-Governance Of Ration Shops The state government has roped in United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) to bring all ration shops in the state under the ambit of e-governance to plug leakages in the public distribution system (PDS). WFP has begun a feasibility study …
In January 2012, PM Manmohan Singh declared half of India’s children were malnourished and that was a national shame. Yet since then, not a single comprehensive national survey was conducted to determine the acuteness of the problem or measure progress, if any, of steps initiated to address malnutrition. Worse, the …
Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India’s public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the performance of PDS in terms of its outreach and offtake. States like Bihar and Jharkhand which were lagging …
This paper outlines India’s achievements in the area of food and nutrition security, and explores what lessons India has to offer to other South countries, and the institutions through which such knowledge sharing may be accomplished.
Although a rapidly growing developing country, India has a larger food-insecure population than all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Given the prevalence of chronic malnutrition, the Government of India spent nearly 1 percent of the gross domestic product in the past year on the Public Distribution System (PDS), its system of subsidies …
The Congress may be banking heavily on the Food Security Act to help it garner votes in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, but the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) under the Planning Commission has given the ruling UPA a reality check in its interim report to the government. The report, a …
The All India Anna Dravida Munnnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) made clear its ambition for a larger role in national politics by declaring that it would provide a strong, bold and determined leadership in the country. The party’s election manifesto made several national-level promises and appealed to the people to vote for …
