Articles for Public Distribution

Govt targets saving ₹250 crore annually with Anna Chakra, SCAN tools by streamlining PDS and subsidy processes
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Govt targets saving ₹250 crore annually with Anna Chakra, SCAN tools by streamlining PDS and subsidy processes

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government on Thursday launched ‘Anna Chakra’ and the Subsidy Claim Application for the National Food Security Act portal, modernizing the public distribution system and streamlining subsidy claim processes. Covering more than 437,000 fair price shops and about 6,700 warehouses, the initiative is projected to save ₹250 crore annually through optimized logistics routes, said Pralhad Joshi, Union minister …

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Food Secretary Praises Telangana's Efforts to Become a Model State in Food Supply Chain
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Food Secretary Praises Telangana's Efforts to Become a Model State in Food Supply Chain

The Hindu  

Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra met with Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and Principal Secretary, Department of Civil Supplies, D.S. Chauhan to discuss streamlining the system and putting processes in place in Telangana. The Food Secretary advised officials to make Telangana a model State that can be replicated by other States, emphasizing the need for further improvements and strengthening …

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Paradigms addressed by direct purchase of rice from FCI for States: Explained
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Paradigms addressed by direct purchase of rice from FCI for States: Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs Pralhad Joshi announced on August 1 that States can directly purchase rice from the Food Corporation of India under the Open Market Sale Scheme without participating in the e-auction beginning August 1. Under the Open Market Sale Scheme, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution sells excess …

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In Narendra Modi Cabinet, Home portfolio allocated to Amit Shah, key posts in NDA govt with BJP: Here's the full list
6 months, 1 week ago

In Narendra Modi Cabinet, Home portfolio allocated to Amit Shah, key posts in NDA govt with BJP: Here's the full list

Hindustan Times  

Shri Raj Nath Singh Minister of Defence. Shri Kirtivardhan Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs. Shri B. L. Verma Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and …

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Modi Cabinet 2024: PM's Core Team Retains Home, Defence, Finance, External Affairs — Check Full List
6 months, 1 week ago

Modi Cabinet 2024: PM's Core Team Retains Home, Defence, Finance, External Affairs — Check Full List

ABP News  

Modi 3.0 Cabinet Portfolio Allocations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retained 34 ministers from his previous council, including 19 with Cabinet berths, as he begins his third term. Kirtivardhan Singh BJP Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs. B. L. Verma BJP Minister of State …

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Modi 3.0 policy is continuity with space for BJP bigwigs, allies: Full list
6 months, 1 week ago

Modi 3.0 policy is continuity with space for BJP bigwigs, allies: Full list

India Today  

The new Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi aimed for continuity while trying to strike a balance between giving space to BJP bigwigs and accommodating NDA allies. Here’s the full list of ministers and portfolios allocated to them: CABINET MINSTERS PM Narendra Modi will handle Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; …

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Over 6.8 lakh saplings raised by forest department for public distribution in Mysuru district
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Over 6.8 lakh saplings raised by forest department for public distribution in Mysuru district

The Hindu  

The forest department in Mysuru district has raised over 6.8 lakh saplings of various species for distribution to farmers and the general public during 2024-25. Range of saplings at subsidised rates Dr. Basavaraju, Deputy Conservator of Forests of Mysuru Territorial Division, said that in Mysuru division alone, 3.29 lakh saplings have been raised and are available for public distribution. 4.10 …

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Including millets in the Public Distribution System
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Including millets in the Public Distribution System

Hindustan Times  

With the International Year of Millets over, the modest millet is showing signs of revival. Last year, the government distributed 48.7 million tons of food grain to NFSA beneficiaries through the PDS; of this, rice and wheat accounted for 66.8 and 31.9%, respectively, while millets accounted for a mere 1.3%. The findings estimated that replacing one kg of rice with …

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Modi govt spent ₹15.6 lakh crores on food grain subsidies in past 5 years, reveals RTI
9 months ago

Modi govt spent ₹15.6 lakh crores on food grain subsidies in past 5 years, reveals RTI

Op India  

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has informed that the Narendra Modi-led-Central government has spent ₹15.6 lakh crores on subsidies for food grains since 2018. An RTI was filed by activist Piyush Tripathi, seeking information about the cost incurred by the Centre for the distribution of wheat, rice and important food grains in the past 5 years. …

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Ration Cards Can't Be Considered As Proof Of Address Or Residence: Delhi High Court
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ration Cards Can't Be Considered As Proof Of Address Or Residence: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that a ration card is issued exclusively for obtaining essential commodities from shops under the public distribution system and cannot be considered as proof of address or residence. Granting relief to the jhuggi dwellers, the court said that DDA had wrongly put reliance on the ration card as proof of address since it did …

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How Modi government's MSP policy boosts agricultural income, social security and distributive justice
1 year, 6 months ago

How Modi government's MSP policy boosts agricultural income, social security and distributive justice

Firstpost  

The Union Cabinet on 7 June 2023, increased the Minimum Support Price of all mandated Kharif crops to the tune of 5.3 per cent to 10.35 per cent for marketing season 2023-2024. However the highest MSP increase has been in moong, which witnessed a hike by 10.4 per cent to Rs 8,558 per quintal for the crop year 2023–24 from …

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India will stock up the world's biggest grain storage
2 years ago

India will stock up the world's biggest grain storage

Live Mint  

India is working on developing the “world’s largest grain storage" programme by merging various schemes of the Union ministries of agriculture and farmers welfare; consumer affairs, food and public distribution; and food processing, two people aware of the development said. India’s centrally held cereal stocks, which supply subsidized grains to nearly 800 million people, slipped to a five-year low this …

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CM’s flying squad conducts raids at Karnal rice mills
2 years, 2 months ago

CM’s flying squad conducts raids at Karnal rice mills

Hindustan Times  

: A team of the chief minister’s flying squad on Friday conducted raids at various rice mills and grain markets in Assandh town of Karnal, three days after it detected a paddy procurement scam of around 75,095 quintals involving four rice millers in the district. CM’s flying squad conducts raids at Karnal rice mills Even as the raids were still …

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Centre’s food, public distribution dept to serve millet food in canteens, meetings
2 years, 3 months ago

Centre’s food, public distribution dept to serve millet food in canteens, meetings

Hindustan Times  

The department of food and public distribution under the Union ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution on Monday directed all their offices to serve millet-based food in their canteens and meetings in order to promote its procurement and consumption ahead of celebrating the International Year of Millets in 2023. “In order to promote consumption of Millets and in …

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Wheat Flour Exports: CCEA Okays Amending Policy To Put Curbs On Outbound Shipment
2 years, 3 months ago

Wheat Flour Exports: CCEA Okays Amending Policy To Put Curbs On Outbound Shipment

News 18  

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the proposal to amend the policy of exemption for wheat or meslin flour. The move will now allow putting restrictions on the export of wheat flour, which will ensure a curb on rising prices of wheat flour in the country. “The Cabinet Committee on Economic …

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Install CCTVs at ration shops, streamline functioning of helpline nos: Parliamentary panel to Centre
2 years, 5 months ago

Install CCTVs at ration shops, streamline functioning of helpline nos: Parliamentary panel to Centre

Firstpost  

The Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution has also recommended that the government should make independent surprise visits and inspections at ration shops, also called fair price shops New Delhi: A Parliamentary panel has recommended streamlining the functioning of helpline numbers to address grievances of PDS beneficiaries and installation of CCTV cameras at ration shops to monitor …

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Explained | Why India, world’s largest producer of sugar, has put brakes on exports
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained | Why India, world’s largest producer of sugar, has put brakes on exports

The Hindu  

The story so far: A fortnight after it banned wheat exports, India announced restrictions on the export of sugar to keep a lid on prices in the domestic market. “Taking into consideration unprecedented growth in exports of sugar and the need to maintain sufficient stock of sugar in the country as well as to safeguard interests of the common citizens …

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Explained | India’s rice fortification scheme and why it has experts worried
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained | India’s rice fortification scheme and why it has experts worried

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Centre recently released a Standard Operating Procedure, or a set of guidelines, for the smooth implementation of its rice fortification distribution scheme, days after a fact-finding team alleged that fortified rice was being distributed in Jharkhand without the consent of beneficiaries. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India defines fortification as “the addition of …

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Narendra Modi’s new Cabinet: Here’s the full list of portfolios and who got which ministry
3 years, 5 months ago

Narendra Modi’s new Cabinet: Here’s the full list of portfolios and who got which ministry

Firstpost  

Mansukh Mandaviya will replace Harsh Vardhan as the new Union health minister while Jyotiraditya Scindia has been handed the Civil Aviation ministry As many as 43 leaders including Jyotiraditya Scindia, Narayan Rane, and Sarbananda Sonowal were sworn in as Cabinet ministers on Wednesday evening. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Portfolio: Minister of Minority Affairs He became Minister of State for Minority Affairs …

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What new Modi Cabinet looks like | Full list of ministers with their portfolios
3 years, 5 months ago

What new Modi Cabinet looks like | Full list of ministers with their portfolios

India Today  

The Narendra Modi government underwent a major overhaul on Wednesday with induction of 43 new faces and 12 ministers resigning from their posts. The ministers who were dropped include senior leaders like IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. On the other hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought in Sarbananda …

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Rules For Ration Distribution May See Change Soon
3 years, 5 months ago

Rules For Ration Distribution May See Change Soon

News 18  

The Department of Food and Public Distribution is all set to make changes in the eligibility standards for people who take ration from government ration shops across the country. According to the department, 80 crore people across the country are taking advantage of the National Food Security Act including many those who have become financially prosperous in the past few …

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India's One Nation-One Ration Card: Important but Delayed Reform
3 years, 5 months ago

India's One Nation-One Ration Card: Important but Delayed Reform

The Quint  

The Supreme Court set the cat amongst the pigeons on 29 June, directing all States and Union Territories to implement the One Nation, One Ration Card system by 31 July 2021. The intertwining of IT and the Public Distribution System has been in the making, on the back-burner, since 2011, when a panel headed by then UIDAI chairperson Nandan Nilekani …

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No loss to FCI over underutilising Adani Silos, says GOI over CAG report
3 years, 9 months ago

No loss to FCI over underutilising Adani Silos, says GOI over CAG report

Op India  

A few days after media reports had claimed the Comptroller and Auditor General of India had accused the Union government of failing to optimally utilize storage capacity at Adani Silos at Kaithal resulting in massive losses to the public exchequer, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has given a detailed clarification refuting the allegations of causing losses …

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Tamil Nadu 11th State to Implement 'One Nation One Ration Card' Reform, Says Finance Ministry
3 years, 11 months ago

Tamil Nadu 11th State to Implement 'One Nation One Ration Card' Reform, Says Finance Ministry

News 18  

As many as 11 states have implemented the ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ reform so far, following which the central government has allowed them to raise an additional Rs 30,709 crore, an official statement said. Tamil Nadu has become the 11th state in the country to successfully undertake the Public Distribution System reforms stipulated by the Department of Expenditure, Ministry …

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