Food Security Act

India unlikely to insist on food security clause at WTO: Move represents major climbdown from earlier position

At the upcoming World Trade Organisation's (WTO) ministerial conference at Buenos Aires next month, India is unlikely to insist on the food security clause, a major climbdown from its earlier stated position

Why Modi’s claim of new maternity benefit scheme is old wine in new bottle

The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government in Tamil Nadu, in 1987, under former chief minister MG Ramachandran, launched the state’s flagship programme for pregnant women.

Government aims to computerise the PDS sector by March 2017, says Ram Vilas Paswan

Government aims to computerise the PDS sector to help check pilferages and plug leakages by installing electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices at all fair price shops across the country by March 2017.

SC raps states including Gujarat for not implementing Food Act

The PIL alleged that parts of states like Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Haryana and Chattisgarh had been hit by drought and the authorities were not providing adequate relief.

Socio-economic survey data show UPA's food and land bills were misdirected

The number of households considered deprived in the Socio-Economic Census of 2011 suggests that the food security law is hopelessly misdirected at a lot of ineligible non-poor.

Tax math, disinvestments will make or break Arun Jaitley's Budget 2015

Evaluating the budget is always a tricky job and ideally one should score the earlier budget based on realization versus budgeted numbers.

Corruption in FCI is frightening; revamp report addresses root causes: Shanta Kumar

Problems will be there, but someone will have to start from somewhere, says Kumar who headed the panel on restructuring Food Corporation of India

Odisha to introduce Food Security Act soon: Patnaik

The new Act would ensure equitable distribution of food grains to all with focus on tribals, slum dwellers and other vulnerable sections of the society, the Odisha chief minister said in the session on agriculture and food security.

Message from latest nutrition numbers: Food security law is flawed, rework it now

With the number of states that have implemented the Food Security Act still stuck at 11, it is time someone sees reason

Politicians hold the key to taming inflation dragon

What India is seeing today is not a cyclical or seasonal high inflation that will correct itself. High inflation, especially food inflation, has got entrenched and is not likely to go away soon. It is certainly going to pose a huge challenge to whichever government comes to power in May 2014.