-The Hindu Such a stand will dilute its core agenda of pushing for a permanent solution to public stockholding for food security One of the cardinal demands of India in the World Trade Organization (WTO) — and rightly so — has been to find a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding (PSH) of food to protect India’s food security (PSH policy). India’s PSH policy is based on procuring food from...
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Cylinder, subsidy give-outs on a downhill since FY20 -Parvathi Benu
-The Hindu Business Line Only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19, shows data The amount of money disbursed as LPG subsidy by the Centre has been steadily coming down since 2019-20. According to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19. This was when the maximum number of...
More »Cash instead of foodgrains? K'taka govt undecided -Bharath Joshi
-Deccan Herald District-level officials have been mounting pressure on the government to give beneficiaries cash instead of foodgrains The Karnataka government is under pressure to consider replacing foodgrains with cash benefits to not only plug pilferage but give citizens a say in their consumption basket amid concerns that they are not eating all of what they get under the public distribution system (PDS). The cash-based food subsidy is being piloted in Puducherry, Chandigarh...
More »LPG price crosses Rs.1,050, cylinder refills decline among PMUY consumers -Vignesh Radhakrishnan & Jasmin Nihalani
-The Hindu The price surge in LPG cylinders has pushed consumers to lower the number of LPG refills with 5% of the PMUY beneficiaries refilling just once per year in FY22 The price of a 14.2 kg cylinder has skyrocketed to ₹1,053 in July 2022. Though a subsidy of ₹200 per cylinder was recently announced for the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana beneficiaries, the subsidised rate of ₹853 is still double the amount...
More »Cylinder, subsidy give-outs on a downhill since FY20 -Parvathi Benu
-The Hindu Business Line Only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19, shows data The amount of money disbursed as LPG subsidy by the Centre has been steadily coming down since 2019-20. According to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19. This was when the maximum number of...
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