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SC seeks ECI, Centre responses on plea against Aadhaar use beyond identity proofThe Supreme Court is examining a plea to ensure Aadhaar is used solely for identity verification. The petition argues its use for citizensh...
Guwahati HC upholds state's duty to clear forest encroachments, grants 30 days to vacateThe Guwahati High Court has upheld the Assam government's duty to clear reserved forests of encroachments. Alleged encroachers have been gi...
Assam rolls Orunodoi 3.0 scheme with annual budget of Rs 5,604 croreThe Assam government has launched Orunodoi 3.0, aiming to provide financial support to 37.2 lakh families with an annual budget of Rs. 5,60...
Ruling BJP in Assam is banking on beneficiaries to win maximum number of Lok Sabha seatsBJP in Assam strategizes to secure Lok Sabha seats by focusing on beneficiaries. Various schemes like 'Orunodoi' and empowering women entre...
In last 3 years poverty head count ratio has come down by 25 per cent: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa SarmaSarma said the poverty headcount ratio in the state has come down from 36.97 per cent in 2013-14 to 14.47 per cent in 2022-23. He added tha...
Assam mulls providing subsidised tea to ration card holdersIn what could be a significant boost to tea consumption, the Assam government is considering a plan to provide one kilogram of tea to ratio...
Assam to reserve two per cent seats in Grade 1 & 2 government jobs for ex-army personnelThe state cabinet meeting at Gandhi Mandap in Guwahati on Wednesday decided that policemen who lost lives since 1985 in the line of duty, t...
Govt launches web-based registration facility for ration cardsFood Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the 'Common Registration Facility' (My Ration-My Right) has been launched on Friday, aimed at helping ...
Assam becomes 36th State/UT to implement One Nation One Ration CardDuring the last two years of COVID-19 pandemic, ONORC plan has significantly contributed in ensuring subsidized foodgrains to NFSA (Nationa...
Ration card portability implemented across India with Assam being last to operationalise"Assam has become the 36th state/UT to implement ONORC," the ministry said in a statement. With this, the ONORC programme has been successf...
West Bengal, Delhi also begin ration card portability serviceAccording to the ministry, Delhi which operationalised ONORC in July this year provides ration card portability for 33 states covering 69 c...
States/UTs complete Aadhaar seeding of 93 pc ration cardsUnder the NFSA, households covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) are entitled to receive 35 kg of foodgrains per household per mont...
Assam government to rationalise ration cards, add another five lakh card holdersAssam has 58 lakh ration card holders. Assam’s minister Food and Civil Supplies Ranjeet Kumar Dass said, “We have seen several people whose...
App launched for ration card holders to get subsidised grainsUnder the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the government supplies highly subsidised foodgrains at Rs 1-3 per kg to over 81 crore people ...
No proposal at present to revisit coverage of people under NFSA: Food SecyFood Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey on Friday said the government has no proposal at present to revisit the coverage of people benefiting from ...
Only 31% of free grain for migrants distributed till nowFree grain under the government’s Atmanirbhar scheme for migrant labourers has reached only 31% of the intended beneficiaries, as several s...
Par panel likely to submit report on One Nation One Ration Card, housing scheme in SeptUnder the ARHC, the government had come up with two models -- renting out unoccupied houses constructed by the Centre and states (on public...
No new ration card needed for inter-state portability: Ram Vilas PaswanPaswan, who reviewed the implementation of the initiative, said, "There were reports in some newspapers that new ration cards will be neede...
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Sugar shortage compounds Congress' woes in AssamFollowing changed norms last year, sugar has turned bitter for Congress-ruled Assam as sugar is out of Public distribution system.
- Indians prefer sugar from open mkt
Maximum people buy sugar from open markets rather than public distribution system in rural and urban India.