Subsidy to increase substantially if NAC recommendations are incorporated into the Food Security Bill
The total food subsidy bill will balloon to . 1,10,600 crore if entitlements recommended by the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council are incorporated into the Food Security Bill, the Ministry of Food And Public Distribution has estimated. The subsidy bill in the initial phase will be .

The Sonia Gandhi Feb. 10: The Sonia Gandhiled National Advisory Council

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday pulled up the Food Ministry and Planning Commission for the lack of urgency in augmenting foodgrain storage capacity despite the government having to face embarrassment over instances of grain lying in the open and rotting.

Mukherjee aired his exasperation with the slow pace of augmenting storage capacity during the meeting of the EGoM on food securit

Agartala/Aizawl, Dec 16 (IANS): Tripura and Mizoram are facing a food crisis as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has not supplied the allocated quota of food grain to the two States, officials said today.

"In view of the inadequate railway wagons and feeble tracks of NFR (Northeast Frontier Railways), the FCI is unable to supply foodgrain to Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam," Tri

DEHRADUN: Following on the media report about the crisis in Food and Civil supply department in Uttarakhand, State Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has convened a meeting with Food and Civil supplies Minister Diwakar Bhatt and its officials on Tuesday.

After the meeting, CM instructed to ascertain the authenticity of the system, which ensures supply upto grass-root level, so that cons

The food ministry has cited limited availability of grains for the proposed National Food Security Act and told the National Advisory Council, currently drafting the bill, to provide legal entitlements only to the below poverty line (BPL) persons.

As per the NAC recommendation, the BPL families will get 35 kg of food grains per month, including rice at Rs. 3 per kg wheat at Rs.

IRKED with the draft report of an expert panel recommending the scaling down of the much-vaunted programe to blend ethanol with petrol, the food ministry has gone formally bawling to the Planning Commission.
The ministry has complained that the panel headed by planning commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri has

National conference of agriculture, animal husbandry and food-civil supplies ministers of 12 states would begin in Jaipur on Tuesday.

Krishnadas Rajagopal The Union Food Ministry today told the Supreme Court that its suggestion on limiting food procurement to available storage facilities, if put to action, would hit the poor farmer and “drastically impact food security of the nation”.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rapped Union Food Minister Sharad Pawar for interpreting its judicial