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 …
This report deals with the results of audit of Government companies and Statutory corporation and has been prepared for submission to the Government of Chhattisgarh under Section 19A of the Comptroller and Auditor General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971, as amended from time to time. Audit of …
The Union Law Ministry’s opinion is that the food security legislation covers not just Indians but also foreign nationals and refugees. The ministry’s legal affairs department gave this opinion in the backdrop of a 2012 petition by the Mool Pravah Akhil Bharat Nepal Ekta Samaj, saying that “the provisions of …
26,500 cr to be spent on managing costs and losses of the public distribution system Implementation of food security law will cost . 88,500 crore in 2014-15 almost same as the total food subsidy last year, giving a push to the UPA government’s ambitious plan to meet the basic food …
The expenditure on subsidies for food, fertiliser and fuel for 2014-15 is budgeted at Rs 2,46,397 crore, as against Rs 2,45,452 crore in the revised estimates The biggest mystery on the day of the interim Budget had to do with the rollovers for the next financial year on the subsidy …
Koraput district in Odisha was conferred the national award under the schemes District award for effective initiatives in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) administration in the 9th (MGNREGA) Diwas. Koraput is one among the nine districts in the country, which were selected for the prestigious MGNREGA National Awards. Koraput …
'Padithara Khathi', Karnataka government's ambitious food security scheme that ensures delivery of foodgrains at fair price shops on specific dates under the public distribution system (PDS) has been rolled out in the state. The scheme was launched in Mysore with the first such distribution at the Chama-rajapuram Consumers' Co-operative Society …
Aimed to revamp the public distribution system across the state, the Chhattisgarh government had announced to launch the CORE PDS in four new cities. The CORE PDS is based on the latest information technology tools: smart cards, hand-held point-of-sale devices at ration shops and servers that store all data and …
This will further inflate the Centre's subsidy calculation on account of the new law, once it is implemented Congress workers celebrate the victory The central government has decided to widen the acceptability of its biggest social security initiative, the National Food Security Act, by agreeing to equally share the financial …
During September 2013, Parliament passed the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013. The NFSA seeks to make the right to food a legal entitlement by providing subsidised food grains to nearly two-thirds of the population. The Act relies on the existing Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) mechanism to deliver these …
Centre will launch pilot project in State soon: K.V. Thomas Union Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs K.V. Thomas said here on Saturday that the Centre would soon launch the pilot project of distributing 5-kg packets of rice to consumers in Kerala through the Public Distribution System as …
New Delhi : The food ministry is finalising a proposal to rechristen the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) as Indiramma Anna Yojana after the former prime minister and Congress leader. The food security Act won't be renamed. Food minister KV Thomas said the new name for the existing TPDS has …
Dwarfing the government’s oft-quoted estimate that 20-30% of subsidised grain disbursed to the poor is siphoned away, the farm ministry’s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has now pegged the figure much higher at 40.5%. The CACP estimate exposes the dismal progress in improving the targeted public distribution system …
Seeking to dispel the impression that the Food Security Act was against the interests of States like Tamil Nadu, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said Tamil Nadu was ranked fourth among the States that would gain immensely from the law. “I am not making a political statement. …
Procurement & distribution under new Act will not be substantially higher than ongoing PDS India made it clear at the just-concluded Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) meeting of the Committee on World Food Security in Rome that the procurement of foodgrains and distribution under the new Food Security Act will …
It was just not the Super Cyclone that wrought havoc in 14 coastal districts of Odisha in 1999. A fortnight before Ganjam district was devastated by a cyclone, leaving more than 20 dead and a trail of devastation in nearly six blocks close to the sea. It was Maha Astami …
Abandoning its earlier stance, the country’s lone Left Front government in Tripura Wednesday decided to implement the food security act in the north eastern state. The state government had earlier said it could not implement the scheme because of the inadequate quantity of grains earmarked for Tripura under the central …
Centre has let the States to decide their own criteria for identifying beneficiaries The S.R. Hashim Committee report on urban poor has been put in the cold storage by the UPA government. The report, submitted in December 2012 set out the criteria by which the poor living in urban areas …
While demanding food for all under National Food Security Act, Tripura has insisted to distribute other essential commodities including edible oil and pulses through Public Distribution System (PDS). Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanu Lal Saha reiterated the demand of universalisation of food at the Food Ministers’ conference in New …
CM Gehlot Kicks Off Scheme In Nagaur Dist Chief minister Ashok Gehlot launched the National Food Security Act in the state from Nagaur district on Wednesday. He claimed Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to roll out the scheme after completing a survey of the beneficiaries. Starting …
With the Central Government issuing numerous instructions with regard to the implementation of the National Food Security Programme under the provisions of the National Food Security Act, it will not be an easy task for the states to handle. In fact, the Centre, after taking the credit of enacting the …
