JM Financial retains Buy on PDS, target price Rs 690JM Financial maintains a buy call on PDS with a target price of Rs 690, citing strong potential for top-line growth driven by increased out...
13 Jun, 2025, 09.31 AM IST
Buy PDS, target price Rs 790: JM FinancialJM Financial maintains a buy call on PDS with an unchanged target price of Rs 790. The current market price is Rs 449.6. PDS aims for $3 bi...
11 Mar, 2025, 08.51 AM IST
Breaking the Cycle: Food Security Act helps 1.8 million children grow stronger, shows studyThe National Food Security Act of 2013 significantly reduced child stunting in India by preventing stunting in 1.8 million children across ...
11 Jan, 2025, 10.58 AM IST
Here's what is keeping rice on the boilSome of the key reasons for rice inflation include consistent increase in the minimum support price (MSP), government procurement of rice a...
27 Jan, 2024, 12.19 AM IST
Share market update: 8 stocks hit 52-week highs on NSEOverall, 25 shares were trading in the green in Nifty50 index, while 24 were trading in the red.
23 Jul, 2019, 10.28 AM IST
Centre asks states to modernise ration shopsIn order to make PDS system totally transparent, Paswan said that the government is implementing end-to-end computerization of PDS operatio...
12 May, 2016, 06.44 PM IST
Government to computerise all ration shops by March 2019: Ram Vilas PaswanGovernment aims to computerise the PDS sector to help check pilferages and plug leakages by installing electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devi...
11 Mar, 2016, 05.12 PM IST
Government exempts ONGC, Oil India from fuel subsidy payment in Q3 over slump in oil pricesThe government has decided to bear this loss as well and pay all of the Rs 3,279 crore subsidy on LPG and Rs 2,870 crore on kerosene for th...
09 Feb, 2016, 03.19 PM IST
CCEA approves giving freedom to states to fix PDS sugar priceThe decision in this regard was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
21 Jan, 2015, 10.03 PM IST
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs likely to discuss on PDS sugar price issue on WednesdayThe Food Ministry is seeking approval for giving flexibility to state governments to fix the PDS sugar price, either lower or higher than t...
20 Jan, 2015, 09.25 PM IST
Case for food security: Effective PDS implementation by states has helped pull millions out of povertyNew research argues that the public distribution system lifted 38 million people out of poverty in 2009-10. And it’s getting better.
10 Nov, 2013, 11.15 AM IST
Sugar decontrol will not impact prices: Vivek Saraogi, Balrampur ChiniIn a chat with ET Now, Vivek Saraogi, MD, Balrampur Chini, shares his views on sugar decontrol.
05 Apr, 2013, 02.11 PM IST
Govt to sell pulses, cooking oil at cheaper rate via PDSThe CCEA also approved an outlay of Rs 884 crore for computerisation of public distribution system that is aimed, among other things, elimi...
04 Oct, 2012, 10.02 PM IST
- Shares of sugar cos fall as govt defers PDS price hike
Shares of sugar companies fell sharply on Tuesday on reports that the govt has dropped the agenda of hiking sugar prices.
25 Sep, 2012, 03.33 PM IST
- Deprivatising ration shops and doorstep delivery are two measures that can clear corruption
Malnutrition and hunger are much too serious to wait for completion of bundled projects as solutions to PDS leakages.
28 Jan, 2012, 07.29 AM IST
- Food Bill must have strong safeguards for cash transfer: Dreze
Draft Food Security Bill provides the option of cash transfer or food coupons as alternatives to a direct foodgrains.
02 Oct, 2011, 12.56 PM IST
- Major chunk of Delhi's population to be out of PDS
Upto 40 per cent of Delhi's population would not be entitled to foodgrains under the Public Distribution System (PDS) by January as part of...
22 Nov, 2007, 01.10 PM IST