The Delhi Cabinet today gave its approval for implementing the 'Dilli Annashree Yojana', announced in the Budget 2012-13, in order to provide food security to two lakh vulnerable households, not co

Government will incur an expenditure of Rs.150 crore

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved implementation of “Dilli Annashree Yojana”, which was announced in the State Budget 2012-13 and seeks to provide food security to two lakh vulnerable households not covered under the Below Poverty Line and Antodaya Anna Yojana schemes through cash transfers of Rs.600 per month each.

The increase in corruption in coal is closely linked to the increasing importance of this mineral in the economy and of the industry in political funding.

If the Centre is not yet convinced that it can provide foodgrains to everyone and not just to those who are below the Poverty Line, it can turn to the example of several State governments who have already done so, said Surya Kanta Mishra, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, here on Wednesday.

“We are demanding that everyone must be given 35 kg of rice or wheat at Rs. 2 per kg…. Is it possible to do so? If there are any doubts then the Centre only has to look at the manner in which State after State has continued to provide subsidised foodgrains to the people.

The Left parties, including the CPM, on Tuesday managed to attract a section of the civil society members and intellectuals, who had crossed swords with them in the past bitterly criticising their

THE UPA government’s Food Security Bill (FSB) has managed to draw flak from almost every quarter, starting with agencies within the government led by the Minister of Agriculture himself, followed b

Representatives of All India Democratic Women’s Association blocked roads in front of the KSRTC bus station, opposing the draft of the National Food Security Bill, which will be brought up in Parliament soon.

ZP vice president B Savithramma said, “The bill is anti-people and will destroy the public distribution system completely, and adversely affect farmers and poor people.”

To reach out to the poor, an ambitious scheme called ‘Dilli Annashree Yojna’ is to be launched to provide a food subsidy of Rs 600 per month to two lakh vulnerable household not covered by BPL and