Food and civil supplies minister Barkunwar Gagrai today stressed that early announcement of the new government

In the new year, the Food and Civil Supplies department (FCS) of the state government will start its ambitious

BHOPAL: A Day after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar indicated that there was little likelihood of prices coming down, the Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday announced that it would sell cheap foodgrain in urban areas. Elections to municipal corporations and other urban bodies are due and the notification will be announced in the next few days.

Amidst confusion over fate of PAU-201 rice variety in the state markets, the Punjab Food and Civil Supplies Department has lodged its protest with the Union Agriculture Ministry over the way the ministry

Madhya Pradesh government has announced to register the name of farmers before purchasing of food grain on support price from next year, official sources said.
The decision was taken at a meeting of an advisory committee meeting in the presence of Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies Parash Chandra Jain.

An expert group of the Rural Development Ministry on the methodology for conducting the BPL census for the 11th Five Year Plan has suggested to the Orissa government that the actual level of BPL population in the state should be revised upwards to 84.47 per cent from the present level of 47 per cent.

BHUBANESWAR: Minister of State for Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Sharada Nayak today said that the Government was in the process of formulating a new procurement policy for the coming kharif crops.

The new procurement policy will adopt best practices adopted by other states to ensure that farmers get the minimum support price (MSP) announced by the Government every year.

The Roman Catholic church has agreed to extend its help to the state which is struggling to ensure proper distribution of foodgrain to the poor and the needy in the wake of acute drought conditions in most parts of Jharkhand.

THE NCP-manned food ministry is yet to work out the increase in demand for foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS) on account of drought and deficient rainfall. Last week, officials of the food ministry made a presentation before the estimates committee of Parliament, giving details about the foodgrain situation and projections of both demand and production.

The ambitious Food Security Bill may look at being more inclusive-------------
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Jean Dreze, Economist

1. Food security guarantee will have to come from the Centre
2. Does not want to freeze number of BPL families at any inflexible level
3. Wants clear criteria to determine BPL and APL categories, but not with an aim to exclude anyone