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Imphal, May 20: The Okram Ibobi Singh governments new policy on kerosene distribution under the public distribution system has reduced the monthly allocation to below-poverty-line (BPL) card holders, angering kerosene dealers and consumers. Under ...

Opportunities Industrialization Center of Wilson will sponsor its Quarterly Emergency Food Distribution Wednesday beginning at 8 a.m. It will be held at OIC's headquarters located at 801 Reid St. E. Qualified applicants who are on fixed incomes, ...

SILCHAR, April 19 - A scam in the PDS (public distribution system), which relates to the Food and Civil Supplies Department, has come to light in Cachar district.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said below poverty line families could not be denied subsidized ration under the public distribution system just because the state in which they live has already exhausted its quota of ration cards to BPL families.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has said that during the ongoing rabi marketing season, government agencies have procured more than 243 lakh tonnes of wheat. As per data till May 17, total wheat procured during the season in ...

Over 1000 metric tonnes of rice, which have been procured by Department of Consumer Affairs Food ad Public Distribution, Government of Manipur from Food Corporation of India for distribution among the poor and needy people of the State, have turned stale from ...

The government plans to construct fish ponds in all public secondary schools to boost food security. Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Cabinet Secretary Felix Kosgey Monday said a million hectares of land would also be put under irrigation in the ...

By Kiran Kumar Mysore, May 19- The Food and Civil Supplies Department is gearing up to implement the new scheme of 30 kgs of rice a month at Re. 1/kg for BPL card holders, as announced by Siddharamaiah immediately after he was sworn-in as the Chief ...

Come June, the public distribution systems (PDS) outlets will start disbursing rice at 30 kg of rice per month at Re1 a kilo. The Food and Civil Supplies department has issued orders to all districts in the state to implement the policy announcement ...