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...
29 May, 2026, 12.22 PM IST
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...
15 May, 2026, 03.00 PM IST
Himachal becomes first state to launch Aadhaar-based face authentication for ration distributionHimachal Pradesh has pioneered Aadhaar-based face authentication (FaceAuth) for ration distribution under the Public Distribution System (P...
05 Jul, 2025, 06.24 PM IST
₹69,000 crore vanishes in grain leakages: Where is India’s free ration going?A new report reveals that India's Public Distribution System (PDS) suffers a 28% leakage of subsidized grains, amounting to 20 million tonn...
18 Nov, 2024, 01.02 PM IST
Telangana govt mulling introducing 'one state-one digital card'The Telangana government is planning to introduce a 'one state-one digital card' to streamline access to welfare schemes, ration, health, a...
23 Sep, 2024, 09.46 PM IST
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...
22 Jan, 2019, 07.37 PM IST
Delhi PDS server hits capacity issues despite high Aadhaar reliability: StudyThe study found that the Aadhaar authentication attempts for around 1.55 million ration cards were made in Delhi’s AePDS in March 2018.
16 Jun, 2018, 11.22 AM IST
'Aadhaar tied to just 2% of PDS exclusion'On exclusion due to Aadhaar, UID chief executive officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey said this is a concern which is being seriously addressed by v...
18 May, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan apprises Parliament panel about PDS reformsRam Vilas Paswan informed the members about steps being taken for making PDS more effective so that benefits reach the intended beneficiari...
17 Mar, 2017, 10.02 PM IST
Gujarat establishes cashless system for PDSAccording to the Food ministry there are over 81 crore beneficiaries under NSAI in the country.
08 Feb, 2017, 05.42 PM IST
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...
06 Feb, 2017, 03.50 PM IST
Replacing PDS with DBT shows mixed results in Economic SurveyThe use of direct transfer was expected to eliminate a lot of wasteful expenditure, corruption and leakages, which would lead to much bette...
01 Feb, 2017, 12.45 AM IST
Govt mulls making Aadhaar card essential for subsidised grainThe Centre also said that states have promised to install digital payment system at ration shops by June.
19 Jan, 2017, 06.57 PM IST
'Use of smart cards in PDS can help save Rs 20,000 cr a year'Smart card technology can help India save around Rs 20,000 crore in the PDS by eliminating ghost beneficiaries who cause huge leakage in th...
18 Oct, 2013, 11.06 PM IST
- Cabinet approves 1st phase of PDS computerization
Govt approved the first phase of the end-to-end computerization of Targeted Public Distribution System that will cost the Centre and states...
05 Oct, 2012, 11.12 AM IST
- Food minister K V Thomas raps states for poor grain offtake, says storage modernisation must in readyness for Food Security Act
Modernisation of PDS had ensured that close to two crore bogus BPL ration cards had been weeded out nationally.
26 Jul, 2011, 10.41 PM IST
- Aim is to enrol 600 million in first phase of UIDAI: Nilekani
With the first phase of UIDAI aiming to enrol 600 million residents of the country into its database in next four years and its possible us...
09 Jul, 2010, 05.36 PM IST