After 12 years at the helm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects on a transformative journey filled with key reforms that have altered Ind...

Apart from modernising the distribution and logistics network, the scheme seeks to strengthen fair price shops (FPS) and to assist state ag...

These two food subsidy schemes have been subsumed as Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for effective and uniform implementat...

For smooth implementation, general managers of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have been asked to visit three ration shops every day in...

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...

Over and above the subsidized foodgrains, the government during the pandemic is supplying free foodgrains to NFSA beneficiaries under Pradh...

In a letter dated June 22 written to the Delhi government, the Union Food Ministry pointed out several challenges and concerns in the propo...

The Delhi government in April 2018 had temporarily suspended distribution of ration through the e-PoS system. The Centre wants the Delhi go...

Elaborating on the implementation of the PMGKAY scheme, he said more than 63.67 lakh tonne foodgrains (around 80 per cent of total PMGKAY a...

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

"So far, the facility has been enabled in 32 states/UTs covering nearly 69 crore beneficiaries, almost 86% of NFSA population of the countr...

The government has given time to those not having the biometric-based unique identification number to apply for Aadhaar by June 30.

"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...

In its effort to implement the first phase of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Odisha, the state government will launch a ration ca...

Odisha govt has deleted names of at least 50 lakh ineligible beneficiaries from the list of people to benefit from the National Food Securi...

The 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...