-Livemint India is closer to breaking up FCI as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat New Delhi: India is closer to breaking up Food Corporation of India (FCI), an agency at the heart of the world's largest public food distribution programme for the poor, as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat. "Private companies should buy, store and distribute the grains as much...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 384
Food law adrift as government trims grain purchases -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-The Business Standard The NDA is looking to reduce fiscal deficit not by chopping social sector spending but by paring it down Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is fairly confident the government will meet this year's fiscal deficit target. At 4.1 per cent of gross domestic product the deficit looked looked like a bit of stretch in July but the food subsidy, for one, is not going to balloon as in previous years. The...
More »End-to-end solutions for food supply -Charan Singh, Padmakumar Nair and Shamil M
-The Hindu Business Line India now has the technology to track leakages at each stage in the public distribution system The Government has set up the Expenditure Management Commission to rationalise subsidies, among other expenditure items in India. India incurs nearly one per cent of food subsidy annually, generally utilised under the existing public distribution system (PDS) consisting of Food Corporation of India (FCI) and nearly five lakh Fair Price Shops (FPSs)....
More »How to improve the welfare state -Ajay Chhibber
-The Business Standard Make schemes mobile and portable, by focusing on people and not products India spends close to four per cent of its GDP on an alphabet soup of welfare schemes and subsidies - it has become a welfare state before becoming a developed state. Despite its significant costs, India's welfare system is neither comprehensive nor very effective - subject to huge leakages and corruption, and not well knit into...
More »States pitch for separate FCI to ensure fodder security
-PTI NEW DELHI: In order to improve availability of fodder in the country, several state governments today suggested setting up of a Fodder Corporation of India (FCI), ban on export of oilseed cake and disallowing harvesting of wheat and other fodder crop using combine harvestor. Some states also demanded that the Centre should treat animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries at par with the agriculture sector and ensure benefits such crop loans at...
More »
