RBI highlights strong banking sector health, says lenders can withstand severe shocksIn the fiscal year 2025-26, India's financial landscape demonstrated remarkable stability. Both banks and non-bank entities showcased solid...
Sarthak PDS gets Cabinet nod with Rs 25,530 crore outlay to modernise food distribution systemApart from modernising the distribution and logistics network, the scheme seeks to strengthen fair price shops (FPS) and to assist state ag...
Sarthak PDS: Cabinet clears Rs 25,000-crore overhaul of public distribution systemThe Union Cabinet has approved the Rs 25,000-crore Sarthak Public Distribution System scheme. This initiative aims to modernize India's foo...
India’s invisible workforce gets a new safety net: Key labour reforms for migrant employees decodedIndia's inter-state migrant workers gain significant protections under new labour code rules notified on May 8, 2026. The Occupational Safe...
Mumbaikars can now place orders for veggies at PDS shopsEarlier, the state government had started an initiative in which stationary products could be sold at PDS shops in rural areas, as items so...
YES Bank climbs 2% on Maharashtra govt dealThe bank is set to announce its December quarter numbers on Thursday.
Yes Bank partners with Maharashtra government for electronic PDSUnder the partnership, Yes Bank will empower more than 20,000 ration shops which can offer last mile basic banking services to more than se...
Get your ration with a phone call, OTP systemWith an existing IVRS line of 161, the OTP option will be added for ration cardholders to accommodate even basic phone users to get their r...
Display foodgrain subsidy at ration shops: Centre to statesPaswan further said the states have been asked to prominently display the foodgrains subsidy on a board at all ration shops for public awar...
Card, Aadhaar enabled payments at all PDS, fertiliser depots soonFinance Secretary Ashok Lavasa said over 1.7 lakh PoS machines have already been installed at public distribution system (PDS) shops and mo...
Remove names of well-off from BPL list: CM Vasundhara RajeRaje also gave direction against district supply officer Gautam Chand Jain and enforcement officer Ravi Jadhav in allotment of a PDS shop.
- Maharashtra to use group SMS to bring transparency in PDS
Govt warehouse operators will now have to send sms to a select group of people within the vicinity of PDS shop as soon as food grains are d...
Chhattisgarh goes for smart card solution to plug PDS leaksChhattisgarh government plans to plug leakages in the public distribution system by identifying the beneficiaries through biometric data st...
- 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.
- Entire PDS has collapsed, says SC panel
The sale of foodgrains through the public distribution system to poor families throughout the country at highly subsidised prices is stinki...
- Electronic weighing machines soon for PDS shops
Electronic weighing machines would soon be installed in all 23,600 PDS (Public Distribution System) across Tamil Nadu before the end of thi...
- BJP pushes for CBI probe into wheat import
The BJP in Maharashtra is on a wheat sample-collection spree to build a case for a CBI probe into the import of red wheat.