During 2020 out of total allocation of 322 LMT foodgrains under PMGKAY-2020 (April-November 2020), approx 298.8 LMT foodgrains (i.e. around...

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

This is one of the 100-days agenda of the Modi 2.0 government, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said.

The government approved allocation of additional 27 lakh tonnes of foodgrains to BPL and APL families for next six months to those states w...

Under the law, eligible persons will be entitled to get 5 kg of foodgrains per person per month at Rs 3,2,1 per kg for rice, wheat and coar...

"This will only help the government to contain its subsidy but not provide food security, which is the aim of the Bill,"

Implementation of the National Food Security Bill will entail a subsidy of a whopping Rs 1.12 lakh crore.

The Food Ministry has moved a Cabinet note on the National Food Security Bill which aims to provide legal entitlement to subsidised foodgra...

Draft Food Security Bill provides the option of cash transfer or food coupons as alternatives to a direct foodgrains.

Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) today approved the draft National Food Security Bill, 2011 which envisages food support to...

The draft bill is likely to propose cash transfer of subsidy to the BPL card holders' account, instead of providing cheap foodgrain.

PM's expert panel on Food Security Bill disfavoured Sonia Gandhi headed NAC's proposal of legally entitling 75 per cent of population to su...

The National Advisory Council on Saturday recommended to the government to grant differential legal entitlement of foodgrains to nearly 800...

The Public Distribution System is to be linked to UID’s central data repository to plug leakages.

On a day the National Advisory Committee (NAC) proposed changes in foodgrains entitlement under the food security bill, the Left said it wi...

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...

Despite an estimated import of 5.5m tonnes of wheat, the government may reconsider a cut in the PDS foodgrain entitlement for above-poverty...