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
Mumbai: An RTI query has unearthed a major scam in the Public Distribution System, as many as 42 lakh bogus ration cards have been issued in Maharashtra leading to large scale theft of food grain. A PIL in the Bombay High Court has alleged grains meant for the state's poor are being offloaded on to the wrong hands. The petition filed by a member of Anna Hazare's anti corruption NGO...
06:27 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: Despite India spending over two per cent of GDP in social protection schemes, their returns in terms of poverty reduction are yet to reach full potential, a World Bank report has said, pointing to "high leakages" in PDS and "uneven implementation" of MNREGA across states. The report, the first comprehensive review of India's social welfare and anti-poverty initiatives, said about 60 per cent of grains released by government...
06:36 PM, May 18, 2011
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02:44 PM, Dec 11, 2010
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the government is considering a hike in the quantity of foodgrains under the Public Distribution System (PDS) along with an upgradation in the number of eligible Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. "The government is considering an overall increase in PDS including an upgradation in the number of eligible BPL families," Pawar told reporters here after a meeting of the Empowered Group...
10:28 PM, Sep 02, 2010
New Delhi: Kevin Pietersen on Thursday described his swashbuckling unbeaten century as one of his favourite knocks, which helped his team Delhi Daredevils register a five-wicket win over Deccan Chargers in an IPL 5 match here. It is an amazing feeling to score a century in T20 cricket. This is my first in this format, so it has to be my favourite, Pietersen said after he smashed 103 off 64...
02:10 AM, May 14, 2008
Mohali: The management of Kolkata Knight Riders rubbished reports suggesting that they have issued an embargo on players from talking to the media apart from scheduled press conferences. We have just heard from the Kolkata media about this. There are reports that we are not allowing any interaction with the players other than the official press conferences. I want to say on record - that's not true. There is no...
12:05 PM, May 13, 2008
This after CNN-IBN exposed how rotten Australian wheat was being sold to poor. ...
01:09 AM, Oct 08, 2007
The Australian wheat distributed to the poor is worm-eaten and full of dirt. ...
11:22 PM, Oct 03, 2007
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