The Act as been enacted in Haryana, Himachal, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Mizoram and Delhi

The Centre will review preparations for implementation of the National Food security Act with the States and UTs in a meeting here on Tuesday.
The Act which got accent of President Pranab Mukherjee on September, 12 after Parliament's nod, has been enacted in Haryana, Himachal, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Mizoram and Delhi. The historic Act will ensure heavily subsidized foodgrains to about 82 crore people as their legal right.

Congress-ruled states like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Mizoram and Delhi have already started implementing the National Food Security Act

The United Progressive Alliance government will on Tuesday review with states preparations for the implementation of its flagship National Food Security Act Tuesday, a statement said Monday.

Ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Congress government in Himachal Pradesh is all set to implement the ambitious food security programme of UPA government by launching the Rajiv Gandhi Ann Yojna in

Authorities fail to provide pulses to beneficiaries

Tall claims of the state government of providing wheat flour (atta) and pulses (dal) to the poor notwithstanding, the beneficiaries have not been getting their share of pulses since January in the district.

The parents of Shoaib, five, and Imran, three, got worried when the staff of a Born Learning Centre (BLC), who visited their house at Hennur in the City five months ago, told them that the brothers

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The Union Government has agreed to financially support the Food Subsidy Scheme of the state government for the Above the Poverty Line (APL) residents of the state. Minister for Food and Civil Supplies GS Bali said this today while talking to mediapersons here.