-The Hindu ‘We had to walk 40 to 50 km., in flood, to collect Foodgrains' Raipur: While the Chhattisgarh government is touting its Food policy as the most successful model of production and distribution of Food grains in the country, the people of Abujhmarh - a vast swath of forestland in south-west Chhattisgarh - spent another monsoon without adequate Food. Several villagers told The Hindu that the fair price shops, run by Gram...

-The Hindu Geeta Dharmarajan, founder of Katha, which has just completed 25 years of reaching out to the unreached in the National Capital. Scrolling down the students' blog of Katha, the non-profit organisation in the National Capital which runs schools for underprivileged children living in 248 slums, I come across a complaint letter by a child addressed to the Chairman, Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The child wants to bring to his notice...

-PTI The landmark Food Security Bill, aimed at giving a legal right on highly subsidised Foodgrains to 67 per cent of the country's population, on Thursday received the President's nod. "We have received the Presidential assent to the Food Security bill," Food Minister K.V. Thomas told PTI. The law will soon be notified in the Government gazette, after which it will come into effect, he added. The Centre has convened a meeting of...

-PTI NEW DELHI: Flagging the challenge of raising Foodgrain production, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today promised all assistance to states for improving agricultural growth. "It's a challenging job to increase production of Foodgrains and other crops for the growing population of the country, especially, because agriculture is still dependent on monsoon in large parts of the country," he said, addressing a gathering of farmers, who arrived here as part of a nationwide...

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