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Govt proposes 7 kg grain per beneficiary under Antyodaya Anna Yojana; family quota capped at 35 kgDraft National Food Security (Amendment) Bill aims to shift to a per-person entitlement of 7 kg, while maintaining the 35 kg household cap.- 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...
- Rs 10 sugarcane FRP hike: Small raise, big questions for farmers and millsFarmers call the hike inadequate while industry warns of rising cane arrears
- Delhi government under the control of 'ration mafia,' alleges BJP"If grains are home-delivered, people will not get to know how much of it is going where and how much of it might have disappeared on the w...
- Government weeds out 44 million bogus ration cards to plug leakage“There were a large number bogus and duplicate ration cards before 2013. In last seven years, we have focused to prevent any leakage in the...
- FM announces free foodgrains for 8 crore migrant workers for 2 monthsDS ration cards will be made portable, allowing migrant workers to use their ration cards across states, she said adding this would benefit...
- Food stocks in September to be 2.5 times minimum requirementFood minister Ram Vilas Paswan said the government is closely monitoring the situation, and that the country is adequately stocked to under...
- Food ministry pushes for increase in allocation of subsidised food grainsFood minister Ram Vilas Paswan has written to PM Modi seeking his approval for this proposal, which has been lying before the Cabinet for s...
- Mamata Banerjee faces Opposition heat over subsidised food scheme in West BengalThe announcement comes at a time when the state government is already selling subsidised rice (at Rs 2/kg) in the LWE affected blocks in th...
- Shortfall in off-take by Gujarat government deprived beneficiaries: CAGAccording to the CAG report, the shortfall in the off-take deprived the beneficiaries concerned from getting subsidised food grains.
- Animal feed industry cross-subsidises grain-based alcoholAs the oil companies have raised use of ethanol for blending with petrol, prices of molasses-based ethanol have risen from about Rs 27/litr...
- The Food Bill will not serve the purpose, even for CongressIf the food security Bill is finally implemented, all it will do is to supplement part of what the states spend on food subsidy with money ...
- Direct cash transfer to take off in union territories first, says GovernmentFood ministry will introduce direct cash transfer to poor families through their Aadhar-based bank accounts first in the UTs.
- Ashok Gulati panel cautions govt on Food BillAn expert panel led by Ashok Gulati has come up with an outlook on challenges and options in the implementation of the bill.
- NAC's food bill entitles 70% to subsidised grainThe draft, which will now be forwarded by Sonia Gandhi to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is likely to be adopted by the government.
- Food Security Bill: Women made heads of households selected for food grain distributionThis highly unusual move for general welfare schemes wasn't part of the original discussions on the food bill.
- Food Security Law: Government likely to accept council's recommendations despite warningsSeveral experts have warned that the NAC recommendations would force the government to substantially raise its grain procurement, which in ...
- Grain stocks pile up at FCI on slipupHas the food ministry been misleading over changes to its subsidised grain sale in the open market, resulting in massive excess stocks stil...
- Subsidised grain unlikely for better-off in revamped PDSThe government’s plans to fix up the public distribution system (PDS) to strengthen food supply to the poor could weed out the better-off p...
- 'Only 42% subsidised grains reach target group'Only about 42 per cent of the subsidised grains issued by the Central Pool reaches the target group, according to a Planning Commission stu...
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