The recent spike in tomato prices has been driven by a raft of factors, including crop seasonality and heavy monsoon downpours, and the government has taken a series of steps to address inflationary pressure in essential commodities, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Parliament on Monday. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, the minister … Read more
The Centre has released Rs 2,94,718 crore towards food subsidy during the last fiscal to Food Corporation of India (FCI) and states, which is slightly higher than the revised budget estimates. During the financial year 2021-22, the Department of Food & Public Distribution released Rs 2,94,718 crore towards food subsidy, under both DCP (decentralised procurement) … Read more
The Centre has procured 741.62 lakh tonne of paddy in the ongoing 2021-22 marketing year so far at the minimum support price (MSP), Union Food Ministry said on Monday. “Till now about 105.14 lakh farmers have been benefitted with MSP value of Rs 1,45,358.13 crore,” the ministry said in a statement. A quantity of 741.62 … Read more
Alleging that AAP government is trying to run a parallel distribution scheme, the Centre has moved the Supreme Court against a Delhi High Court order directing the city government not to stop or curtail the supply of food grains or flour, to fair price shop owners. A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, B R … Read more
The Centre on Friday said there is no proposal at present to extend free foodgrains supply via the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) to provide relief to ration card holders, in view of recovery in the economy and good disposal of foodgrains in the open market under the OMSS policy. Initially, the additional … Read more
Despite industrial lockdown, Maharashtra attracted more than Rs 1 lakh crore in domestic and foreign direct investments, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari said on Monday. Addressing the joint sitting of members of the state Legislature on the first day of the budget session, Koshyari said 66,000 permissions were issued online to start various industries during the … Read more
New Delhi: The government has cleaned up 43.9 million bogus and ineligible ration cards from public distribution system to ensure that the subsidised food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) is distributed among genuine beneficiaries. “There were a large number bogus and duplicate ration cards before 2013. In last seven years, we have … Read more