The scheme was launched by the PM on May 1, 2016, in Ballia district in UP targeting 5 cr poor households

Food Minister John Rotluangliana said that Mizoram is planning to implement the Food Security Act from November this year.

Four task force meetings and a consultative workshop yielded the consensus of applying eight exclusion criteria.

Hooda will launch the ambitious Food Security scheme in the state from Panipat on August 20, on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi's birth annive...

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today called on Union Food Minister K V Thomas to discuss various nitty gritties regarding the food security ...

Sheila Dikshit today said her government was "gearing up" for its roll out in the city on August 20.

Manmohan Singh today said the government was bringing a food security legislation on back of higher foodgrain output and crop diversificati...

Against the ceiling of 2.50 crore families, the states have reported issuance of AAY ration cards to 2.43 crore families, the minister adde...

The government is likely to table the revised National Food Security Bill on Thursday, which is aimed at providing a legal entitlement of c...

The government will consider major amendments to the Food Security Bill in a special Cabinet meeting.

The government has no plans to introduce Universal Public Distribution System (PDS) because the attention on poor people will get diluted.

The Supreme Court directed the government to allocate additional five million tonnes of food grains to the 150 poorest districts of the cou...

The proposed National Food Security Act has estimated that the subsidy bill will be around Rs 29,000 crore to cover 6.59 crore BPL families.

Orissa governor claimed the mandate given to the Patnaik government in election.

The UPA government at the Centre has been pulled up for ’inefficient’ foodgrain procurement and excessive reimbursement on procurement inci...