-Livemint.com To ensure food security of India’s 1.4 billion people, a decision was taken to prohibit export of wheat in May following rising demand for Indian wheat amid the Russia-Ukraine war. But, this caused a jump in export demand for wheat flour The Union cabinet on Thursday approved placing restrictions on wheat flour, or atta, exports to curb rising prices and ensure food security for the poor. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs...
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Export curbs on wheat flour
-The Telegraph Decision to further restrict the export was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by PM Narendra Modi New Delhi: The Modi government on Thursday further restricted the export of wheat flour to curb rising prices as shipments have increased over 200 per cent during the April-July period compared with last year. The government in May had banned the export of wheat. The decision to...
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Is India going to face inflation in cereal prices during the rest of the current financial year? Experts differ on this. An analysis by Nomura Global Economics and CEIC finds that a below normal monsoon does not always translate into high retail inflation in food. Similarly, an above normal southwest monsoon does not always bring down the rate of food inflation. However, some agricultural experts (please click here, here and...
More »Mid-Day Meal Renamed PM POSHAN: New Name, Reduced Budgets -Eisha Hussain
-Behanbox.com New Delhi: The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN), a modified version of the existing National Scheme for Mid-Day Meal in Schools (MDM) on 29 September, 2021. The MDM scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme under which the government provides one hot cooked meal to all children studying in classes 1 to 8 in...
More »Beyond the Big Promises, 'PM Poshan' Is Old School Meal on New Plate -Dipa Sinha
-TheWire.in Narendra Modi has taken a well-functioning but underfunded scheme and added his 'branding' to it. The least he could have done is allocated the kind of money the programme badly needs. On September 29, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the ‘National Scheme for PM Poshan’ in schools, details of which have been put out in a press release. While full scheme details are not yet available, this news...
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