Per capita income rose in real terms by 33.4 per cent since enactment of NFSA: Centre to SC"During last eight years, since the enactment of NFSA, per capita income of the population in India has increased in real terms by 33.4 per...
Odisha tops state ranking for implementation of National Food Security ActHe said the ranking will lead to healthy competition among states under the NFSA, also known as the food law, under which the Centre provid...
Centre again asks Delhi to resume e-PoS devices in PDS; seeks compliance report by June 30The Delhi government in April 2018 had temporarily suspended distribution of ration through the e-PoS system. The Centre wants the Delhi go...
Government ropes in 12 institutions to evaluate impact of National Food Security ActDuring 2018-20, about 26 institutions and universities were engaged as monitoring institutions for conducting the evaluation of the impleme...
As many as 32 States, UTs implementing 'One Nation One Ration Card'"So far, the facility has been enabled in 32 states/UTs covering nearly 69 crore beneficiaries, almost 86% of NFSA population of the countr...
Economic Survey suggests revision of rates and coverage under NFSAUnder the NFSA, the government supplies 5 kg of subsidised foodgrains to each person per month through more than 5 lakh ration shops, known...
Odisha to implement its own food security act from October 2: Chief MinisterPatnaik said lakhs of poor were being deprived of benefits under NFSA as the ration was being provided as per the 2011 census.
21 states to implement National Food Security Act by April 1The National Food Security Act (NFSA) will be implemented in 10 more states from April 1 this year.
Odisha Government requests Prime Minister to allot more rice under NFSA"I request you to kindly intervene in the matter so that the state gets the food grain as per its requisition," Naveen Patnaik wrote to Mod...
- CPI(M) activists clash with police over NFSA protests
"It is an anti-people act. NFSA will deprive huge population of the right to food. It is against the interests of the people,"CPI(M) leader...
J&K government to implement Food Security Act from April, 2016The decision in this regard was taken during a state cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed.
Naveen Patnaik to launch NFSA ration card distribution on October 2In its effort to implement the first phase of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Odisha, the state government will launch a ration ca...
NFSA deadline 'completely unrealistic', Jayalalithaa tells PM Narendra ModiTamil Nadu government told Centre that its directive to implement National Food Safety Act by Septemebr 30 was "completely unrealistic".
Names of 50 lakh illegal persons deleted from Odisha National Food Security Act listOdisha govt has deleted names of at least 50 lakh ineligible beneficiaries from the list of people to benefit from the National Food Securi...
Centre should not hurry implementation of National Food Security Act: ICRIERThe law aims at providing legal entitlement to 5 kg of subsidised foodgrains per person per month at Rs 1-3/kg to two-thirds of the country...
Government not to make amendments in Food Security ActThe government has decided not to make any amendments in the Food Security Act as suggested by the High Level Committee on restructuring of...
Tea gardens in Assam fear huge escalation in social costAssam has around 800 big tea estates and around one lakh small tea growers producing roughly 550 million kgs of tea annually.