Bharat rice: The government plans to introduce 'Bharat rice' on Tuesday at a subsidized rate of Rs 29 per kg, aiming to alleviate the impac...

Currently, beneficiaries are lifting grains in advance for maximum two months, while the Punjab government is already distributing six-mont...

Food minister Ram Vilas Paswan has written to PM Modi seeking his approval for this proposal, which has been lying before the Cabinet for s...

Over the next few days, the Union Cabinet is expected to decide on providing additional 2 kg grains to every NFSA beneficiary on a monthly ...

Around 200 families – who are reluctant to go to the enclave which now belongs to Bangladesh – would also be distributed rations free of co...

According to the CAG report, the shortfall in the off-take deprived the beneficiaries concerned from getting subsidised food grains.

CCEA today cleared a proposal to allocate additional 5 mn tonnes of foodgrain to BPL families this fiscal, entailing a subsidy of about Rs ...

"Madhya Pradesh is the first state after Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu to provide food grains to the poor at such a special subsidised rates."

"The Centre has allocated 5 million tonnes of additional foodgrains to the state for below poverty line (BPL) families," an official statem...

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

Food ministry plans to augment wheat and rice procurement by 10 mn tonnes to meet expected demand under proposed National Food Security Act.

The Bill aims to provide the poor a legal guarantee for cheaper rice and wheat and was a part of the Congress' 2009 election manifesto.

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.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the government is committed to tabling the National Food Security Bill in Parliament soon.

Has the food ministry been misleading over changes to its subsidised grain sale in the open market, resulting in massive excess stocks stil...

Govt likely to provide subsidised wheat & rice to 1.5 cr additional BPL families from Oct 2.

In the last three years, Rs 31,585.98 crore worth of wheat and rice meant for the poorest of the poor was siphoned off from the public dist...