Former Congress ally DMK today indicated its support to the UPA's 'game-changer' Food Security Bill even though it has wanted a few changes...

Higher use of the PDS will make it difficult for the government to deliver the Rs 75,000-crore food subsidy to its eligible beneficiaries.

Seeking a universal PDS to cover country's entire population under the food security net, CPI(M) supporters staged a protest.

Left parties would organise a campaign for the Food Security Bill and universal Public Distribution System throughout the country.

Left parties today announced a month-long agitation programme to press for ensuring a universal Public Distribution System.

The government has no plans to introduce Universal Public Distribution System (PDS) because the attention on poor people will get diluted.

We welcome the tabling of a National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha as an important step towards the elimination of hunger and undernu...

Malnutrition and hunger are much too serious to wait for completion of bundled projects as solutions to PDS leakages.

In the new model, PDS would only supply nutritious items such as millet and pulses, and not distribute sugar or wheat.

The planning commission, has proposed national poverty line at Rs 32 and Rs 26 per capita per month for urban and rural areas resp.

A day after the Work Bank marked out deficiencies in the country's public distribution system (PDS) for foodgrain, a senior government offi...

The public distribution system (PDS) has failed to deliver on its objectives in many parts of the country.

On the eve of a decision on the draft food security law by the Sonia Gandhi headed National Advisory Council, the government unveiled a blu...

After having systematically weakened the country’s Public Distribution System, the Centre is now gearing up for its complete revamp, on the...

The effects of NREG wages on nutrient intake in many cases are larger than those of non-NREG income For some nutrients, PDS has larger effe...

Many essentials of Indian kitchens are almost beyond reach; sugar is up by nearly 60%, pulses by 46% and potatoes by 53% over a year.

The Centre will take a call on whether or not to bridge the Above Poverty Line (APL) consumer pie in the world's largest Public Distributio...