-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...
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I&B ministry’s plan to have separate social media cell faces hurdle -Mahendra Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The plan to give tablets, laptops and smart phones to babus as part of the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry's proposal to set up a social media cell has hit a major hurdle with Planning Commission objecting to the scheme. While the plan to buy costly gadgets has raised eyebrows, the proposal to have a separate social media wing, independent of the existing Press Information Bureau...
More »Most states can’t stock food grains for more than a month -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With the UPA government serious about implementing the Food Security Bill, the Committee on Public Undertakings, headed by Congress's Jagdambika Pal, will take up for discussion on Monday a recent report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the assessment of food grain management across the country. The auditor's report paints a grim picture on the states' lack of capability to manage operational stock of...
More »A grain of common sense-Sreenivasan Jain
-The Business Standard Chhattisgarh proves no cash transfer or UID is needed to make PDS work Viewed from a ration shop in Surguja in the largely poor tribal north of Chhattisgarh, the arguments for and against the food security Bill seem way off the mark. We had travelled there to see first-hand Chhattisgarh's much-celebrated transformation of its broken, corrupt public distribution system (a recent survey found that wastage of PDS grain dropped...
More »How to reduce our rotting mountains of grain
-The Economic Times India's GDP growth has almost halved from 9.2% in 2010-11 to 5% in 2012-12. Major problems include a high current account deficit, high fiscal deficit, and lack of bank credit for small and medium enterprises. All three problems can be mitigated substantially by one single measure - reducing excess food stocks. So say Ashok Gulati and Surabhi Jain, chairman and joint director respectively of the Commission for Agricultural...
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