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In State's Interest To Ensure Easy Access To Foodgrains At Subsidised Prices: High Court
It is in the state's interest to ensure citizens get subsidised foodgrains easily, Delhi High Court said as it asked Delhi government to examine the feasibility of opening fair price shops in localities from where the nearest outlet is 2.5 km away.
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Government Incentivises States Ensuring Transparent Ration Distribution
Government has amended the Food Security (Assistance To State Government Rules) 2015, so that states generate savings by using e-POS devices properly.
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No Name For Doorstep Ration Scheme: Arvind Kejriwal On Centre's Objection
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today pleaded with the Centre not to impede his government's attempts to ensure that the people get their monthly ration at their doorsteps. He said his administration's sole aim was to neutralise the mafia that operates in the city through this innovative scheme and he himself did not want any credit from it. T...
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Punjab Chief Minister Launches Smart Ration Card Scheme To Cover 1.41 Crore Beneficiaries
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday rolled out a "smart ration card" scheme for providing subsidised foodgrains to 1.41 crore beneficiaries in the state.
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Centre Gives Deadline For Implementing "One Nation, One Ration Card"
The centre has given states and Union Territories time till June 30, 2020 to roll out the ''one nation, one ration card'' system, under which beneficiaries can buy subsidised foodgrains from ration shops in any part of the country.
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Start Doorstep Delivery Of Ration To Needy, Centre Tells States
Even as the centre is yet to clear the Delhi government's proposal on doorstep delivery of subsidised foodgrain, it told the states on Friday to implement a similar programme to prevent starvation deaths.
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2 Gujarat Ration Shop Owners Cheated Aadhaar Security, Stole Grain: Cops
Two owners of government-funded ration shops were arrested by the police in Gujarat's Surat for allegedly pilfering subsidised foodgrain by using hacked software and unauthorised biometric Aadhaar data of beneficiaries.
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Delhi High Court Comes To Aid Of Slum Dwellers Having No Aadhaar Cards
The Delhi High Court today appointed a local commissioner to inspect South Delhi slums where people are facing difficulty in getting subsidised foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) due to lack of Aadhaar cards.
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Public Distribution System has Collapsed in Bihar: Sushil Kumar Modi
Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi today alleged that the poor families were not getting subsidised foodgrains and sugar as a result of collapsed public distribution system in Bihar.
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18 States & Union Territories Fail to Meet Deadline for Food Law Roll Out
As many as 18 states and Union Territories including Gujarat failed to meet the September 30 deadline for rolling out the landmark National Food Security law, depriving a large section of the poor from availing highly subsidised foodgrains.
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As Centre Moves Quietly to Replace Subsidised Foodgrain With Cash, States Object
Even as the government finds itself under fire for the Land Acquisition Ordinance, there are now concerns over whether it is choosing a backdoor route of making food subsidy payments by cash transfers.
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Delhi: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit promises foodgrain vending machines like Mother Dairy
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today promised that her government would install vending machines for subsidised food grains on the lines of Mother Dairy.
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Food security bill gets nod from President Pranab Mukherjee
The landmark Food Security Bill, aimed at giving a legal right on highly subsidised foodgrains to 67 per cent of the country's population, today received the President's nod.
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PM to discuss changes in Food Bill, wants early rollout
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting on Wednesday to consider uniform legal entitlement of subsidised foodgrains to 67 per cent of the country's population under the National Food Security Bill.
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Andhra Pradesh Poultry Federation demands damaged wheat and paddy for poultry
Andhra Pradesh Poultry Federation demands damaged wheat and paddy for poultry Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Poultry Federation has demanded the Centre to allocate two lakh tonnes which is damaged and unfit for human consumption wheat and paddy to the poultry industry at subsidised prices.
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In State's Interest To Ensure Easy Access To Foodgrains At Subsidised Prices: High Court
It is in the state's interest to ensure citizens get subsidised foodgrains easily, Delhi High Court said as it asked Delhi government to examine the feasibility of opening fair price shops in localities from where the nearest outlet is 2.5 km away.
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Government Incentivises States Ensuring Transparent Ration Distribution
Government has amended the Food Security (Assistance To State Government Rules) 2015, so that states generate savings by using e-POS devices properly.
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No Name For Doorstep Ration Scheme: Arvind Kejriwal On Centre's Objection
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today pleaded with the Centre not to impede his government's attempts to ensure that the people get their monthly ration at their doorsteps. He said his administration's sole aim was to neutralise the mafia that operates in the city through this innovative scheme and he himself did not want any credit from it. T...
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Punjab Chief Minister Launches Smart Ration Card Scheme To Cover 1.41 Crore Beneficiaries
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday rolled out a "smart ration card" scheme for providing subsidised foodgrains to 1.41 crore beneficiaries in the state.
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Centre Gives Deadline For Implementing "One Nation, One Ration Card"
The centre has given states and Union Territories time till June 30, 2020 to roll out the ''one nation, one ration card'' system, under which beneficiaries can buy subsidised foodgrains from ration shops in any part of the country.
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Start Doorstep Delivery Of Ration To Needy, Centre Tells States
Even as the centre is yet to clear the Delhi government's proposal on doorstep delivery of subsidised foodgrain, it told the states on Friday to implement a similar programme to prevent starvation deaths.
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2 Gujarat Ration Shop Owners Cheated Aadhaar Security, Stole Grain: Cops
Two owners of government-funded ration shops were arrested by the police in Gujarat's Surat for allegedly pilfering subsidised foodgrain by using hacked software and unauthorised biometric Aadhaar data of beneficiaries.
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Delhi High Court Comes To Aid Of Slum Dwellers Having No Aadhaar Cards
The Delhi High Court today appointed a local commissioner to inspect South Delhi slums where people are facing difficulty in getting subsidised foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) due to lack of Aadhaar cards.
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Public Distribution System has Collapsed in Bihar: Sushil Kumar Modi
Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi today alleged that the poor families were not getting subsidised foodgrains and sugar as a result of collapsed public distribution system in Bihar.
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18 States & Union Territories Fail to Meet Deadline for Food Law Roll Out
As many as 18 states and Union Territories including Gujarat failed to meet the September 30 deadline for rolling out the landmark National Food Security law, depriving a large section of the poor from availing highly subsidised foodgrains.
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As Centre Moves Quietly to Replace Subsidised Foodgrain With Cash, States Object
Even as the government finds itself under fire for the Land Acquisition Ordinance, there are now concerns over whether it is choosing a backdoor route of making food subsidy payments by cash transfers.
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Delhi: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit promises foodgrain vending machines like Mother Dairy
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today promised that her government would install vending machines for subsidised food grains on the lines of Mother Dairy.
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Food security bill gets nod from President Pranab Mukherjee
The landmark Food Security Bill, aimed at giving a legal right on highly subsidised foodgrains to 67 per cent of the country's population, today received the President's nod.
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PM to discuss changes in Food Bill, wants early rollout
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting on Wednesday to consider uniform legal entitlement of subsidised foodgrains to 67 per cent of the country's population under the National Food Security Bill.
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Andhra Pradesh Poultry Federation demands damaged wheat and paddy for poultry
Andhra Pradesh Poultry Federation demands damaged wheat and paddy for poultry Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Poultry Federation has demanded the Centre to allocate two lakh tonnes which is damaged and unfit for human consumption wheat and paddy to the poultry industry at subsidised prices.
