-The Hindu Social audits of the mid-day meal scheme by parents can ensure that the world's largest intervention against hunger that also helps keep children in school need not suffer setbacks like the Bihar tragedy This week, 23 children lost their lives after having a mid-day meal served at a school in Bihar's Saran district. Preliminary reports suggest that the school lacked a storage facility for foodgrain which led to contamination and...
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CMs puzzled over implementation of food security programme-Anita Katyal
-Rediff.com While the Delhi and Haryana governments have declared that they are all set to roll-out the food security programme on August 20 -- Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary -- there is confusion among the chief ministers about the implementation of the ordinance which gives the right to people to receive adequate quantity of food grains at affordable prices. Anita Katyal reports. Although the ordinance has provided broad parameters that 75 per cent...
More »Cheap rice won't make people lazy, CM Siddaramaiah says -Naheed Ataulla
-The Times of India BANGALORE: Rice is all set to change Karnataka politically. The Congress's rice-atone-rupee scheme will come alive at 10am on Wednesday when chief minister Siddaramaiah symbolically offers the foodgrain to the people. The scheme, christened Anna Bhagya, will offer 30 kilos of rice at Re 1 a kilo to 8.7 million BPL (below poverty line) families in the state. The first big public splash after the Congress's return to...
More »CCEA okays sale of 10.5 mn tonne FCI foodgrains in open market
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today cleared the Food Ministry's proposal to offload 10.5 million tonnes of FCI foodgrains in the open market to control retail prices. However, the proposal on allowing extra 2 million tonnes of wheat export through public sector trading agencies was not listed on the CCEA agenda for discussion. "The CCEA has approved allocation of 10 million tonnes of wheat and 0.5 million tonnes...
More »India lost foodgrain worth Rs. 45 cr in 5 years -Harinder Baweja
-The Hindustan Times The Centre, it seems, might again be required to go in a damage control mode and account for the loss of Rs. 45 crore worth of foodgrain in the past five years. The data was accessed by Hindustan Times through Right to Information. And as per our calculation, the grains, damaged mostly during handling and storage, could have fed at least 250,000 people per year. The government had earlier admitted...
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