The Centre is expanding its QR tagging system for Food Corporation of India foodgrain bags. This initiative will cover Andhra Pradesh, Tela...

West Bengal's long-standing political clashes with the central government over welfare schemes are set to change. With the BJP now in power...

These two food subsidy schemes have been subsumed as Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for effective and uniform implementat...

Increased subsidies on foodgrain and fertiliser are likely to strain the federal budget, even though the government has seen strong tax col...

Foodgrains via ration shops are supplied at highly subsidised rates of Rs 3 per kg for rice, Rs 2 per kg for wheat and Rs 1 per kg for coar...

In February, 2017 the government had made Aadhaar mandatory to avail subsidised foodgrains, cash transfer of food subsidy.

The beneficiaries will get the subsidy amount in advance in their bank accounts and they will have to buy the foodgrains from any ration sh...

Paswan further said the states have been asked to prominently display the foodgrains subsidy on a board at all ration shops for public awar...

Under the food security law, the Centre is supplying foodgrains at a highly subsidised rate of Rs 1-3/kg to 72.46 crore beneficiaries in 33...

The law aims at providing legal entitlement to 5 kg of subsidised foodgrains per person per month at Rs 1-3/kg to two-thirds of the country...

The agreement means WTO will introduce new standards for customs checks & border procedures. It will streamline the flow of trade around th...

It also said the continuous mono-cropping is affecting soil health. Farmers are growing those crops on which states fix bonus.

Thomas today said the food law, which aims to give legal right to subsidised foodgrain to the poor, is an extension of existing welfare sch...

The Centre proposes to introduce a pilot scheme in six union territories for direct transfer of food subsidy to the beneficiaries in order ...

During the current fiscal, 488.74 lakh tonnes foodgrains have been allocated to the beneficiaries under the TPDS, the minister said.

Manmohan Singh's core group on food and (PDS) is looking at the option of providing foodgrain subsidies using Aadhar Unique Identification ...

The country's food subsidy bill is expected to jump by 27 per cent to Rs 74,231 crore in the 2010-11 fiscal, the Lok Sabha was told today.