PDS rice distribution delay linked to wheat distribution indecision in Odisha
4 months, 3 weeks ago

PDS rice distribution delay linked to wheat distribution indecision in Odisha

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: With the state government in a spot over the mango kernel deaths in Kandhamal district, it has now come to light that distribution of PDS rice for the October-December quarter was delayed for about a month, thanks to the Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare department’s overdrive to provide wheat to ration card holders without due diligence. “Software upgradation of PoS machines with the newly-supplied digital weighing machines to PDS dealers halted the ration distribution for five days from October 10 to 15. The offline centres where PDS dealers face internet issues had to start rice distribution from October 25 as they received their quota for the current quarter on October 23,” said sources in the FS&CW department. Earlier, FS&CW minister Krushna Chandra Patra had announced that the state government will distribute wheat along with rice to the card holders from October.

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Telangana CM Revanth Reddy to launch fine rice supply to ration card holders on Ugadi
1 week ago

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy to launch fine rice supply to ration card holders on Ugadi

The Hindu  

Telangana Government has decided to supply fine rice to the families availing of rice from the public distribution system outlets, ration shops, from Ugadi. Scheme envisages coverage of families identified for issuance of new cards Fine rice will be given at six kgs per head every month for the family members with the ration cards. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy …

Puducherry government resumes distribution of monthly free rice, after discarding earlier system of cash pay-out
2 months ago

Puducherry government resumes distribution of monthly free rice, after discarding earlier system of cash pay-out

The Hindu  

Ration cardholders in the Union Territory have once again started receiving monthly free rice through Public Distribution System outlets after the Puducherry government, with the concurrence of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, discarded the system of Direct Benefit Transfer of cash, in lieu of free rice to the beneficiaries. The ration shops in the Union Territory became dysfunctional in …

Telangana to distribute fine rice by March within 2 months
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana to distribute fine rice by March within 2 months

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Irrigation and civil supplies minister Capt N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday announced that the Telangana government would start distributing fine rice to ration cardholders within next two months. Addressing concerns about new ration dealer shops, Uttam Kumar Reddy said the government is ready to set up additional shops where they are required. Responding to MLA K. Sambasiva Rao's …

Minister Nadendla Manohar conducts surprise inspections at rice mills
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Minister Nadendla Manohar conducts surprise inspections at rice mills

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada:Minister of civil supplies Nadendla Manohar has uncovered irregularities in the distribution of Public Distribution System rice during a surprise inspection of seven rice mills in the Guntur and Palnadu districts. During the inspections, approximately 1,000 metric tonnes of PDS rice paddy were found stored illegally, leading to the registration of criminal cases against those responsible. The inspections revealed that …

Fine rice from New Year, subsidised wheat for white card holders: Minister Uttam Kumar
7 months, 1 week ago

Fine rice from New Year, subsidised wheat for white card holders: Minister Uttam Kumar

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday announced that fine rice would be distributed to all holders of white ration cards across Telangana from the New Year. Stressing the importance of delivering the best quality rice to consumers, the minister instructed officials to supply wheat at subsidised prices wherever needed, ensuring that demand is met across the …

L-G has given nod to distribute free rice through PDS shops in Puducherry: Rangasamy
8 months, 1 week ago

L-G has given nod to distribute free rice through PDS shops in Puducherry: Rangasamy

New Indian Express  

PUDUCHERRY: At a time when the demand for free rice is at its peak, Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Monday said Lieutenant Governor C P Radhakrishnan approved the distribution of free-of-cost rice through fair price shops under the Public Distribution System. Speaking to mediapersons during the launch of the diet and biomarker survey study, Rangasamy said the ration shops would …

Karnataka CM Hikes Commission Amount For PDS Distributors
1 year, 1 month ago

Karnataka CM Hikes Commission Amount For PDS Distributors

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: Considering that the commission given to distributors of Public Distribution System was "low" in Karnataka, Chief Minister on Thursday announced hike in commission amount for distributors of Public Distribution System from Rs 1.24 to Rs 1.50 for a kg of rice distributed to the beneficiaries and the hike has been agreed owing to insistence of Minister for Food and …

Millers Ignore CMR Delivery Deadline Civil Supplies Officials Remain Tightlipped
1 year, 1 month ago

Millers Ignore CMR Delivery Deadline Civil Supplies Officials Remain Tightlipped

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Despite the January 31 deadline set for millers to return custom-milled rice from the paddy given to them, officials from the state civil supplies corporation are tightlipped on the volume of the custom-milled rice that has come back. Citing the Rs 56,000 crore debt and Rs 11,000 crore losses piled up by the BRS regime, the minister had noted …

8 Rice Mills Booked For Misappropriation Of PDS Rice
1 year, 2 months ago

8 Rice Mills Booked For Misappropriation Of PDS Rice

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: Police registered cases against eight rice mills in Nizamabad district on the charges of misappropriation of the rice meant for public distribution system belonging to the Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation. The booked rice mills included MSR Agro-Industries, Star Trader and Wasi Para-boiled Rice Mill at Varni, Royal Trading Company at Humnapur, Ganga Rice Mill, SN Puram, Sri Laxmi …

T.N. in negotiations with National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation, other States, to procure more rice
1 year, 9 months ago

T.N. in negotiations with National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation, other States, to procure more rice

The Hindu  

With the Food Corporation of India reiterating its position of not providing more food grains to States under its Open Market Sale Scheme, the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation is negotiating with the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India and other States to procure the additional quantity of 50,000 tonnes to 60,000 tonnes a month of rice that it needs. …

India’s first central PDS control centre starts in Vijayawada
2 years, 1 month ago

India’s first central PDS control centre starts in Vijayawada

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: India’s first-of-its-kind Central Command Control Centre to monitor Public Distribution System in the country from procurement of grains to their distribution to households has started functioning from Wednesday in the city of Vijayawada in AP. Inaugurating the centre located within the Civil Supplies Building at Kanuru, civil supplies minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao disclosed that the strong fool-proof surveillance …

Millet distribution at PDS outlets on pilot basis to start this fiscal: Minister
2 years, 2 months ago

Millet distribution at PDS outlets on pilot basis to start this fiscal: Minister

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu government will start distribution of ragi at PDS outlets in Dharmapuri and the Nilgiris districts on a pilot basis this year, said Minister for Food and Civil Supplies R. Sakkarapani, here on Saturday. Inaugurating Tamilnadu Millet Conclave - 2023, organised by Nirmala College for Women and Tanmillets and Tamil Research Association, on the theme “Reviving Traditional Food Products …

Rice being distributed free of cost to beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act in Andhra Pradesh
2 years, 3 months ago

Rice being distributed free of cost to beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu  

January 01, 2023 06:14 pm | Updated 06:14 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA The Government of Andhra Pradesh is providing rice to the beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act and also to the non-NFSA card- holders free of cost with effect from January 1, 2023. He has instructed the District Collectors to take steps for the smooth distribution of …

PDS rice being smuggled via sea, says Food Secretary Radhakrishnan
2 years, 6 months ago

PDS rice being smuggled via sea, says Food Secretary Radhakrishnan

The Hindu  

Food Secretary J. Radhakrishnan on Thursday said that rice meant for the public distribution system was being smuggled through the sea. Dr. Radhakrishnan said with the State government and the police blocking ways to smuggle rice meant for the PDS, including three major and 16 minor routes in Tiruvallur district and the rail route via Gummidipoondi, the new mode of …

Eight districts in Telangana face short supply of PDS rice
2 years, 7 months ago

Eight districts in Telangana face short supply of PDS rice

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: There is short supply of rice being supplied through public distribution supply in eight districts. Sources said though rice millers in Khammam district have come forward to supply 30,000 tonnes of rice immediately, government has decided to procure rice from surplus districts, including Suryapet, Karimnagar and Nizamabad. It has stocked 97,000 tonnes of rice for PDS for 12 months …

Reconsider decision to distribute fortified rice through PDS in Wayanad: Shreyams Kumar
2 years, 7 months ago

Reconsider decision to distribute fortified rice through PDS in Wayanad: Shreyams Kumar

The Hindu  

Loktantrik Janata Dal State president M.V. Shreyams Kumar has urged the Central government to reconsider the decision to distribute fortified rice through the public distribution system in Wayanad under the Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme. The decision was taken without considering the health issues and social impact of fortified rice consumption, Mr. Kumar said. Health experts had revealed that there …

Union Cabinet approves distribution of fortified rice across schemes
2 years, 11 months ago

Union Cabinet approves distribution of fortified rice across schemes

The Hindu  

The government on Friday approved the distribution of fortified rice across government schemes such as the public distribution system, and nutrition services for school children and anganwadi beneficiaries. The second phase will cover targeted public distribution system and other welfare schemes in all 291 aspirational districts as well as districts with high burden of stunting by March 2023. Last year, …

Public distribution system crisis impoverishes 50,000 orphans in Kerala
8 years, 3 months ago

Public distribution system crisis impoverishes 50,000 orphans in Kerala

Deccan Chronicle  

Kozhikode: The crisis in the public distribution system has affected over 1,200 charitable institutions in the state. Many of them are banking on the public distribution system and ration shops have no rice and wheat to give them. Govt moots wage hike to end crisis The LDF government has decided to end the stalemate in ration distribution by giving Atti …

PDS in Bihar: The road ahead
9 years, 4 months ago

PDS in Bihar: The road ahead

Live Mint  

In a recent article on the public distribution system in Bihar, Chetan Choithani and Bill Pritchard describe the limited impact of one PDS reform in Bihar: the “coupon system”. Indeed, their findings echo our own findings from 2011: one year before the Choithani-Pritchard survey, we found that the coupon system had been largely undermined and only half of the grain …

In the rice bowl
16 years, 8 months ago

In the rice bowl

The Hindu  

ONE of the most sensitive initiatives by Reliance Retail since its foray into the farm sector in Kerala in June 2007 was its attempt to procure rice from Kuttanad in Alappuzha district, where farmers have been in distress for long because of falling prices, labour shortage, high cost of inputs, shrinking area under cultivation, opposition to mechanisation, and high wages. …

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