The government has sufficient food grain stocks under the central pool to meet the requirement of the country’s food security program, additional allocation from PMGKAY, and other welfare schemes, informed the Central Government through a release on Saturday. About 159 lakh tonne of wheat and 104 lakh tonne of rice will be available as on … 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
The government granted Tamil Nadu (TN) an additional borrowing limit of Rs 4,813 crore on account of its successful implementation of the One Nation One Ration Card System (ONORCS), a finance ministry statement said on Friday. With this, TN became the 11th state to implement the public distribution system (PDS) reforms, taking the total additional … 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