Explore how India's largest food security scheme, praised by PM Modi, has excluded over 14 crore citizens due to outdated ...

NAHARLAGUN, 10 May: The Directorate of Food and Civil Supplies (DFCS) has asked all the districts to lift three months’ quota of foodgrain under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in advance and ...

but even this is way below the 21.9 per cent poverty ratio when the NFSA was launched. Even if we reckon the National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) that captures poverty in multiple ...

Making her maiden intervention in the Rajya Sabha, Sonia used the opportunity to take ownership of the NFSA — pointing out that it was introduced by the UPA government in September 2013 and recalling ...

New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that the delay in the census has deprived 14 crore Indians of their rightful benefits under the National Food ...

This is the question that the statistics ministry is grappling with, in its effort to revise the base year for the Consumer Price Index (CPI ... Food Security Act (NFSA,” said the ministry ...

"The approach of the government is unfortunate," he said. Nayak said that in the 2022 State Ranking Index for NFSA, Odisha was ranked No. 1 state in the country by the central government.

The index is calculated on four criteria ... we are not a food surplus nation,” she said. “We have a PDS and NFSA which are giving basic food grains (wheat and/or rice), but not the whole package.