Senior Royal DSM official François Scheffler says their firm is working with the central government, NGOs and rice millers to expand Vitamin A fortified rice production.
PMGKAY was extended for three more months last week. An analysis of the scheme's beneficiaries shows that over 50% of the population in Gujarat and 38% in HP will benefit from it.
Paper suggests extreme poverty in India was as low as 0.8 per cent of population in 2019 & food transfers were instrumental in ensuring that it remained at that low level in pandemic year of 2020.
The PMGKAY scheme was initially launched for three months from April 2020 to provide relief to poor people amid the Covid pandemic. It has been extended several times since then.
The directive came via letter Friday to Delhi Food & Civil Supplies Secretary Padmini Singla by S. Jagannathan, Joint Secretary for Department of Food & Public Distribution.
Wheat and rice prices under PDS have remained unchanged since the introduction of the food security act in 2013 despite increasing management costs every year.
Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan is upset with Nitish govt for not sending updated list. But Bihar food minister says list already updated on Centre’s portal.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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