BJP in Assam strategizes to secure Lok Sabha seats by focusing on beneficiaries. Various schemes like 'Orunodoi' and empowering women entre...

Sarma 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...

In what could be a significant boost to tea consumption, the Assam government is considering a plan to provide one kilogram of tea to ratio...

The state cabinet meeting at Gandhi Mandap in Guwahati on Wednesday decided that policemen who lost lives since 1985 in the line of duty, t...

Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the 'Common Registration Facility' (My Ration-My Right) has been launched on Friday, aimed at helping ...

During the last two years of COVID-19 pandemic, ONORC plan has significantly contributed in ensuring subsidized foodgrains to NFSA (Nationa...

"Assam has become the 36th state/UT to implement ONORC," the ministry said in a statement. With this, the ONORC programme has been successf...

According to the ministry, Delhi which operationalised ONORC in July this year provides ration card portability for 33 states covering 69 c...

Under the NFSA, households covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) are entitled to receive 35 kg of foodgrains per household per mont...

Assam has 58 lakh ration card holders. Assam’s minister Food and Civil Supplies Ranjeet Kumar Dass said, “We have seen several people whose...

Under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the government supplies highly subsidised foodgrains at Rs 1-3 per kg to over 81 crore people ...

Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey on Friday said the government has no proposal at present to revisit the coverage of people benefiting from ...

Free grain under the government’s Atmanirbhar scheme for migrant labourers has reached only 31% of the intended beneficiaries, as several s...

Under the ARHC, the government had come up with two models -- renting out unoccupied houses constructed by the Centre and states (on public...

Paswan, who reviewed the implementation of the initiative, said, "There were reports in some newspapers that new ration cards will be neede...

Following changed norms last year, sugar has turned bitter for Congress-ruled Assam as sugar is out of Public distribution system.

Maximum people buy sugar from open markets rather than public distribution system in rural and urban India.