-The Hindu Expanding PDS coverage to account for the increase in population since 2011 is a no-brainer; the Government’s resistance to implementing a Supreme Court of India direction is baffling The National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, through the Public Distribution System (PDS), provides a crucial safety net for roughly 800 million people. Even critics of the PDS appreciated its services during the COVID-19 lockdown. The humanitarian crisis resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown,...

-The Telegraph Over 19 PVTG families belonging to the Korwa tribe are not getting food grains under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana Jamshedpur: The Jharkhand government going high on its doorstep delivery campaign Apki Yojana, Apki Sarkar, Apke Dwar has reasons to ponder on execution of welfare schemes with several families of the particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) denied rations for seven months. Over 19 PVTG families belonging to the Korwa tribe, one of...

-The Telegraph At present, India has 195 million households with ration cards (nearly 794 million people), lower than the beneficiaries we intended to target in 2013 Inordinate delays in carrying out the census exercise are depriving millions of Indians who rely on rations for their subsistence. The exclusion of the poorest from the public distribution system in the pre and post-pandemic years was first flagged by the economists, Jean Drèze and Reetika...

-Business Standard The apex court directed the Centre to re-determine coverage in accordance with Section 9 of the NFSA The Supreme Court directed the Centre to come out with a solution so that benefits under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) are not restricted in accordance with the Census 2011. And, more and more needy persons get the benefits under the Act. Keeping in mind that the ‘Right to Food’ is a fundamental...

-The Telegraph The activists flagged a reply by the Jharkhand food, and civil supplies department during the monsoon session about payment of food security allowances Jamshedpur: Food security activists in Jharkhand are pained at the difference between the government's claim in the state Assembly on the implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013, and stark realities at the ground level. The activists have flagged a reply by the Jharkhand food, and civil...