Alcohol subsidised
Budget 2023-24: Subsidy schemes slashed by Rs 1,59,000 crore
LPG subsidy cut by 75 per cent, food subsidy by 31 per cent, fertiliser subsidy by 22%
Dying for ration: 70-year-old sustains family as mentally ill daughter, disabled son-in-law denied BPL benefits
Requests for below-poverty line card rejected
Dying for ration: These Barmer widows and orphans are being turned away from PDS shops
Settlement has lost most of its men to liquor abuse; Women work as waste pickers
Parliament committee proposes no increase in foodgrain entitlement in Food Security Bill
States given the responsibility of expanding food security net to cover more households
Prime Minister’s Logic
For India, the fight at WTO will be about food security
India needs to find a permanent solution to the problem of public stock holding, as it is a matter of survival for hundreds of millions of people
Civil society 'deeply disappointed' with WTO ministerial declaration on agriculture
On Public Food stockholding, the current proposal is far worse than the Peace Clause, which itself suffered from several problems
Creative accounting, window dressing apart Centre's COVID-19 relief package 0.5% of GDP: Jean Drèze
The Centre announced a relief package recently and a few other interim measures after the 21-day nationwide lockdown to combat COVID-19 left …
India’s food subsidy programme, future of farmers hang in the balance
At the upcoming WTO meet, India has to negotiate a better deal to ease restrictions on giving food subsidies
Cash, on delivery: How India has taken up DBT in the times of COVID-19
India has employed its direct benefit transfer system to help people tide over the ongoing health and economic crises. Its real test will begin …
WTO trumped by America
WTO's recent ministerial meeting at Buenos Aires highlights the strain on the multilateral trading bloc from US unilateralism and its own`unfair' …
Uttarakhand to introduce its own food security scheme
Move follows Centre's refusal to allocate additional foodgrains to the state to implement food security Act
PDS rice and wheat consumption has doubled in rural India: NSSO
Reforms in public distribution system and increase in number of people covered by it could be the reasons, say experts
Dying for ration: Biometric glitches in Rajasthan villages keep the poor hungry
Valid ration card holders turned away from PDS shops as fingerprints don't match in records
Dying for ration: Denied full benefits, 62-year-old widow eats a meal a day to survive
Around 80 households out of 250 denied PDS welfare in Baramsar
Unravelling the food mess
Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in …