Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday accused the central government of adopting a callous approach to the kerosene needs of the poor in Tamil Nadu by reducing its allocation. In a letter to Singh, Jayalalithaa cited the reduced allocation of kerosene to Tamil Nadu to 39.429 kilo litre (KL) for April-June 2012 from 44,580 KL earlier. She said the poor in rural and urban areas depended on...
05:18 PM, May 25, 2012
Palwal: Not just train mishaps but the last three years of UPA rule have also witnessed tonnes of foodgrain rotting away across the country while the poor starve. CNN-IBN has been running a sustained campaign to highlight the issue. Now, it reveals how 80,000 sacks of wheat rotting in the open in Haryana are being distributed to villages through the public distribution system. The dry dust is all that remains...
09:30 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday arrested AICC member Daljeet Singh Chaudhry over his alleged role in the Rs 35,000 crore foodgrain scam in Uttar Pradesh. The arrest came two days after CBI teams searched 12 places in Lucknow. Group 3 employees of the state food corporation and some alleged middleman were also raided for allegedly diverting PDS grain in Uttar Pradesh for export. Complainant Vishwanath Chaturvedi had last month...
11:58 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The food and public distribution department has signed an agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to scale up computerization of the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) in the country. "The WFP programme will assist the selected states to expedite their TPDS computerisation programmes and will complement the ongoing efforts being made for modernisation of TPDS by the government of India and state governments," the ministry...
08:17 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who has been strongly questioning viability of the Food Security Bill, on Monday said the country will have enough wheat and rice stocks to implement the UPA's flagship programme. "This year, we will break last year's record by reaching 250 million tonnes of foodgrains," Pawar said on the sidelines of Kharif Conference 2012. "With this background, to implement the Food Security Bill, I don't...
04:30 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Thursday said it will address the concerns expressed by the states over the proposed National Food Security Bill. "The states have expressed some concerns on the food security bill...we will address them," Food Minister KV Thomas told reporters after the two-day meet with state food and agriculture ministers on revamping the public distribution system. Thomas said his ministry will pass on...
07:36 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: A worried Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he is losing sleep over the rising subsidy bills, notably on food, fertiliser and petroleum products. "As finance minister when I think of the enormity of the subsidies to be provided, I lose my sleep," Mukherjee said in New Delhi at a conference to discuss reforms in the public distribution system (PDS). Due to a sharp increase in subsidies...
05:31 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday it will be difficult to implement the proposed Food Security Act with existing distribution system and suggested massive reforms. "I will be failing in my duty if I do not emphasise the fact that the Food Security Act will never succeed in achieving its goal in letter and spirit, if we try to push the same through the existing PDS apparatus,"...
01:20 PM, Feb 08, 2012
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Recently I got an opportunity to visit Chianttar and shoot a few corruption-related Citizen Journalist stories. Located around 45 km from Patna, Chianttar is a ...
01:16 PM, Dec 22, 2011
CJs expose corruption in rural Bihar; a 75-year old CJ battles to save Varanasi's ponds and CJ videos and pictures ...
08:58 PM, Dec 10, 2011
CJ Jaganath exposes corruption in NREGA scheme while CJ Dhanrajia Devi uncovers corruption in the PDS mechanism. ...
08:21 PM, Dec 10, 2011
New Delhi: A panel headed by UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani on Wednesday suggested two-phase strategy to use IT to improve the PDS network and provide direct subsidy to poor, besides checking pilferage in the process. The first phase of PDS revamp will deal with supply chain improvement, while the second will focus on direct transfer of subsidy, Nilekani said after submitting the report to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The Task...
04:54 PM, Nov 02, 2011
CJ Agnes exposes how benefits of PDS, NREGA and other govt schemes do not reach villagers because of corruption. ...
12:38 PM, Oct 22, 2011
People, Left, Right or Centre, would possibly agree that an internally weak country cant negotiate with the rest of the world from a position of strength. Internal strength of a country cannot be measured just in terms of resources at its disposal, military power, technological expertise and production capacity. Strength of its people is a countrys biggest asset. Economic empowerment of the masses is critical to emergence of a strong...
12:36 PM, Jul 08, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN reported how the government turned a blind eye to lakhs of tonnes of foodgrain left to rot in the open in a country where more than half of the population lives below poverty line. Now, unseasonal rain has caused food grain worth Rs 15 crore to rot outside FCI godowns in Delhi and Rajasthan. CNN-IBN expose forced the food minister to order an enquiry in the matter. ...
10:20 PM, May 23, 2011
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