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Niti Aayog to hire technical consultant to evaluate National Food Security Act, LPG SubsidyNiti Aayog, the Indian government think tank, is seeking a technical consultant to evaluate the implementation of the National Food Securit...- India may fix biggest subsidy schemes - food & LPG - that cost Rs 4 lk cr a yearNITI Aayog, the policy think tank of the Indian government, will evaluate the National Food Security Act and LPG subsidy to ensure efficien...
- Rs 4,000 crore breakfast at school plan ‘vetoed by Finance Ministry: Education MinistryThe plan to serve breakfast to children in government schools to address the malnutrition problem, has hit a wall with the finance ministry...
- Govt to supply fortified rice through ICDS, Mid-day Meal scheme from April"About 65 per cent of India's population consumes rice as a staple food. Fortification of rice is a cost-effective and complementary strate...
- Mid-day meal scheme should be restarted once schools reopen, says Director of UN WFP IndiaSchools across the country were closed in March last year to curb the spread of COVID-19. They were partially reopened in some states from ...
- Govt asks FCI to tie up with rice mills to boost supply of fortified riceAccording to Food ministry, "FCI has been asked to tie up with the rice mills in different regions for necessary investments in this regard...
- Midday meal scheme: Shoddy implementation by states keeping kids hungry amid lockdownAs the lockdown disrupts life and livelihood, the midday meal scheme would come as a big help for poor families who want to keep their chil...
- What's ailing India's midday meal schemeThe scheme's focus has evolved. But a weak monitoring system threatens to cast a shadow on the programme.
- Implementing multiple schemes to address hunger and malnutrition: GovernmentThe Minister's statement assumes significance as in GHI report, Indian ranked 97 out of 118 countries. In the GHI report 2015, India was ra...
- Vasundhara Raje writes to HRD ministry to change meal definition and allow packaged food in schoolsThe Rajasthan government has requested the Union Human Resource Development ministry to allow precooked food to be served as part of the mi...
- Exaggeration of figures in Mid Day Meal scheme: CAGHRD ministry should get data submitted examined through independent checks and a system of surprise checks should be introduced to check ma...
- Slim hike in cooking costs adds to midday meal woesThere can be a healthy subsidy for food for MPs in Parliament but for 12 crore children availing of midday meals, grants continue to come i...
- CAG raps Arunachal's Education Department for failure in implementing MDM schemeThe Centre launched the MDM scheme in August 1995 with the primary objective of boosting universalisation of primary education.
- Modi government's first year: Socionomics — Big talk, tight fistAll non-nutrition expenses are met by the Centre. Now payout for anganwadis could be affected since 90% of it comes from Central funds.
- Harsimrat Kaur, Smriti Irani slug it out over midday mealHighly placed sources in the HRD said Badal's intervention in MDM, is clearly outside her ministry's purview and has been brought to the no...
- HRD minister Smriti Irani wants buttermilk as part of midday mealAs for devoting Saturday in schools only to sports, sources said the idea can be initially implemented in schools run by the HRD ministry.
- Subramanian Swami asks BJP to declare Narendra Modi as its PM candidateSwami said that there was a provision in the inquiry act to rope in central agencies to investigate or give assistance in state specific in...
- Rs 1,700 crore for midday meals, hospitals not spent or largely missing in BiharAccording to an audit report for the year ending March 31, 2012, Rs 2692.05 crore was drawn on AC (Abstract Contingent) bills under the sch...
- Inspect mid-day meal scheme implementation: Education CommissionerC B Kumar has exhorted the state and district education officers for inspection of mid-day meals served in schools and furnish unbiased rep...
- Rural Development, HRD Ministries owe Rs 22,000 crore to FCIThe Ministries of Rural Development and Human Resources Development are yet to pay over Rs 22,000 crore to Food Corporation of India for su...
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