-Down to Earth Despite the increasing burden respiRATory infections and water borne disease, the budgetary allowance for health has steadily dipped in the last few years, according to the National Health Report A degraded environment filled with air and water pollution continues to affect health of people in India, according to the National Health Report (NHP) released on October 31, 2019. Air pollution-linked acute respiRATory infections contributed 68.47 per cent to the morbidity...

-IANS Consumers covered under the Public Distribution System (PDS) will soon be free to buy their goods from any RATion centre under the 'one nation, one RATion card' scheme, officials said. Consumers covered under the Public Distribution System (PDS) will soon be free to buy their goods from any RATion centre under the 'one nation, one RATion card' scheme, officials said. "Making available cheaper foodgrain and ensuring satisfaction of the consumers is the...

-National Herald Odisha government made linking of Aadhaar with PDS compulsory for all beneficiaries; technological issues like low internet penetRATion contributing to humanitarian crisis After Jharkhand, now several hundreds of RATion cardholders from three districts in Odisha have been denied their Public Distribution System (PDS) food grains for at least 60 days mostly on the basis of the failure of Aadhaar system. According to a survey conducted in three districts—Nabarangpur, Nuapada and Malkangiri—...

-Scroll.in A survey by the Right to Food campaign showed that 17 of these families did not receive any RATion at all for the months of September and October. As many as 272 families in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district did not receive their quota of foodgrains for the months of September and October because of discrepancies in linking their Aadhaar numbers to the public distribution system, the Right to Food campaign has found...

-Hindustan Times In last 12 months, 3 million people in Rajasthan haven’t turn up to claim RATion from Fair Price Shops for two months in a row Jaipur: Rajasthan government is looking for answers. Its food department has begun an exercise to look for those people eligible for procuring food grains from fair price shops (FPSs) but have not turned up for two consecutive months. In last 12 months, around three million people...