Ration Cards

In Kalpana Jagdale's life, pension schemes, ration cards — and a dedication to the service of others

For the past 23 years, Kalpana Jagdale has been helping people to avail government schemes. When persuasion and follow-ups fail, she resorts to non-violent protest. She has also started two self-help groups with a few women in Maharashtra's Shirol village

Confusion over Aadhaar linking afflicts several Jharkhand tribal groups; 43% go hungry due to web of procedural obstacles

A recent survey by NREGA Sahayata Kendra in November, 2018 revealed that 43% of sample of 325 households in Manika and Satbarwa blocks in Jharkhand, slept hungry most often or sometimes.

Delhi Food Commissioner Mohanjeet Singh's decision to cancel 2 lakh ration cards taken without proper inspection, says state govt

Rejecting the government's allegation on cancelling ration cards, Singh said 2.48 lakh "ineligible" ration card holders have been deleted after following "due process of law".

DBT savings of Rs 90,000 cr: Narendra Modi govt must build on this in battle against a leaky welfare delivery system

Did DBT really save the exchequer a colossal Rs 90,000 crore, and was this entirely due to elimination of 6 crore ghost beneficiaries, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech?

Social activists say 14 persons died in Jharkhand due to starvation, blame govt mandate to link ration cards with Aadhaar

Starvation deaths are caused by a circle of poverty, government apathy and mandatory Aadhaar-ration-card integration.

Fake PAN, ration cards are a menace: How Aadhaar with biometric features can smoke out crooks

Smart cards with biometric features is indeed the way forward to check the menace of fake and duplicate entitlement cards

Govt detects over 2.16 crore bogus ration cards

As many as 2.16 crore bogus ration cards have been detected and around Rs 13,000 crore, which would have otherwise been diverted, would now be available for the beneficiaries, the government said on Tuesday.

Scam stains famed Chhattisgarh PDS, systemic loot runs into crores

A month after the general elections were over in May 2014, the state government set about verifying the cards and cancelled 14 lakh of these and suspended 10 junior level officials.

Additional 8 mt of food for BPL families? PM to decide today

Food Ministry has worked out a plan to distribute 14.5 million tonnes of foodgrains to ration card holders and offload another 2.5 million tonnes in the open market. The ministry has proposed to incentivise wheat export.

Poor Muslims in Agra who converted will be given ration cards, says Bajrang Dal

A Bajrang Dal leader said Tuesday that all the 300 poor Muslims who he said had embraced Hinduism in Agra will be given ration cards they badly lacked.