The Supreme Court questions if states are using a scientific approach to identify and classify the economically disadvantaged for BPL benef...

The Supreme Court expressed concern over states claiming high per capita growth but stating 75% population below poverty line for subsidies...

The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to file an affidavit detailing compliance with its 2021 judgement on welfare measures, including r...

In a separate response, Singh said unemployment rate or UR (on usual status of age 15 years and above) was 4.2 per cent during 2020-21. The...

"It is the duty of the central government to ensure foodgrains under NFSA are reaching the last man. We are not saying that Centre is not d...

"During last eight years, since the enactment of NFSA, per capita income of the population in India has increased in real terms by 33.4 per...

The linking of Aadhaar cards with ration cards will ensure that no valid beneficiary is left without his or her due share of food grains.

Under the ONORC, nearly 1,78,850 people having ration cards of other states have collected food grains in Delhi between August and October ...

Under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the government supplies highly subsidised foodgrains at Rs 1-3 per kg to over 81 crore people ...

The top court was hearing a PIL, filed by advocate Arvind Singh, which said the Centre has not considered the claim of members of the judic...

Responsibility of identification of beneficiaries under this scheme was entrusted with states, which initially indicated about 2.8 crore to...

Under the program, people are now allowed to take their quota of foodgrains from a “fair-price shop” anywhere in India by giving their rati...

The idea of portable ration cards was first mooted by a committee headed by Nandan Nilekani, the then chairman of the Unique Identification...

The One Nation, One Ration Card scheme announced by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday will be driven by ration cards seeded w...

Besides, the unions have urged government provide free ration to all working population who have lost their jobs during this period irrespe...

The unions have further requested PM to ensure that migrant workers are not charged anything for being transported by the government.

Migrant workers are uncertain if economic activities will restart after May 4. Although the government has announced that it will make tran...