A recent analysis by a team of economists that estimated a 28% leakage of subsidised food grains has “significant inaccuracies”, the government said Tuesday, disputing its findings. The Union food department said the study, led by economist Ashok Gulati of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a New Delhi-based think tank, had “significant discrepancies in data interpretation” …
New Delhi, India – Tabassum Nisha lives in a shanty in a cramped corner of New Delhi’s Malviya Nagar neighbourhood with her five children. The ration card is a document issued by various state governments to households eligible to purchase subsidised food grains from the public distribution system under the National Food Security Act. When the Delhi government in 2020 …
