2015 Cash for Food - A Misplaced Idea (Dipa Sinha, Economic and Political Weekly, 18 April 2015) Cash vs kind (Rohini Somanathan and Anders Kjelsrud, The Indian Express, 14 March 2015) Ending the Above Poverty-Line Scam, (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, Live Mint, 2 March 2015) ज़रूरतमंदों तक कैसे पहुंचे अनाज (रीतिका खेड़ा, अमर उजाला, 24 फ़रवरी 2015) Reforming the Food Corporation of India (Himanshu, Live Mint, 18 February 2015) Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, EPW, 14 February 2015) Why Chhattisgarh ration shops are turning away people without bank accounts (Supriya Sharma, Scroll, 24 January 2015) Centre in no hurry to cut PDS cover for poor (Gargi Parsai, The Hindu, 19 February 2015)
Assessing Bihar's Coupon-Based PDS (Chetan Choithani and Bill Pritchard, Economic and Political Weekly, 17 January 2015) Center revises buffer norms for food grains (Gargi Parsai, The Hindu, 17 January 2015) Food Ministry moots proposal to redistribute subsidy burden (Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Business Standard, 8 January, 2015)
2014 Food Subsidy (Bhupat M Desai, Errol D'Souza and N V Namboodiri, Economic and Political Weekly, 27 December 2014) An Improved PDS in a 'Reviving State' (Mihika Chatterjee, Economic and Political Weekly, 8 November 2014)
Poor start for govt plan to sell wheat in the open market (Sandip Das, Financial Express, 8 October 2014) End to end solutions for food supply (Charan Singh, Padmakumar Nair, Shamil M Business Line, 8 october 2014) Chhattisgarh’s food ATMs: Portable benefits minus biometrics (Payoj Jain, Rhythm Gupta and Yasoob Haider, 15 September 2014) Food security with free rotis (Mumbai Mirror, Ajit Ranade, 15 March 2014) Robbing India's poorest: Study finds HALF the foodgrain meant for PDS is 'diverted' through errors or corruption (Mail Online India, Neetu Chandra, 2 March 2014) Govt spends Rs 3.65 to deliver Re 1-worth food; 57% of subsidized food doesn't reach beneficiaries (The Times of India, Mahendra Kumar Singh, 27 February 2014) India States Fail to Utilize Foodgrain Allocations Under PDS (Oryza, 26 February 2014) One-third of grains in PDS being siphoned, says IEO (Hindustan Times, 26 February 2014)Foodgrain godowns of 203.76 lakh MT to be constructed in 19 states (Press Information Bureau, 21 Feb 2014) More than 411.38 lakh Foodgrains with Central Pool (Press Information Bureau, 18 Feb 2014) FCI to Increase Inter-Regional Movement of Foodgrains (Press Information Bureau, 18 Feb 2014) Intermediate Storage for Storing Three Months Requirement of Foodgrains (Press Information Bureau, 18 Feb 2014) There seems to be at least 40% leakage in our targeted PDS system: Ajay Chhibber (Business Standard, 3 Feb 2014) PDS: Much to be hopeful about (Sandesh Lokhande, newsyaps.com 1 Feb 2014 Kanika Datta: Resuming the race to zero (Business Standard, 29 Jan 2014) 4G Identity Solutions Wins PDS Automation Contract from Government of Bihar (Money Life, 28 Jan 2014) FCI godowns to have digital weighing machines (The Times of India, 27 Jan 2014) Pulses imports may fall to 3.2 mt in 2013-14 (Business Standard, 9 January 2014) Centre may pick up half the cost of transportation of targeted PDS grain (The Hindu, 3 January 2014) CCEA nod for additional foodgrains to States (The Hindu, 3 January 2014)
2013
The Ration Card Route (Lola Nayar, Outlook India, 30 December 2013) FCI seeks govt nod to raise Rs 8,000 crore through bonds (Economics Times, 22 December 2013) Ministers’ panel to review foodgrain buffer norms (Hindu Business Line, 20 December 2013) Food Security: Centre allocates foodgrains to four states so far (The Economic Times, 17 December, 2013) It's time for a more imaginative approach to tackling hunger (Sanjeev Aga, Daily Mail, 27 December, 2013) Foodgrains for BPL population at highly subsidised prices (Press Information Bureau, 13 December 2013) अनाज वितरण खर्च में केंद्र दे सकता है राज्यों को राहत (R S Rana, Dainik Bhashkar, 11 December 2013)
In-Kind Food Transfers - II (Himanshu, Abhijit Sen Economic and Political Weekly 23 November 2013) In-Kind Food Transfers - I (Himanshu, Abhijit Sen Economic and Political Weekly 16 November 2013) Rural Poverty and the Public Distribution System (Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera Economic and Political Weekly 16 November 2013) Case for food security: Effective PDS implementation by states has helped pull millions out of poverty (Avinash Celestine, Economic Times 10 November 2013) Digitization seen reducing food theft in India's PDS system (Kartikay Mehrotra, Mint, 6 November 2013) Five kg rice packets through PDS soon: KV Thomas (The Hindu 2 November 2013) Government to offer customized food bags under food security act (Business Standard 1 November 2013)
2012 Dumping of around 1200 quintal of damaged rice in Railway Yard of Jagatpur area under Cuttack district, Odisha Fact-finding Report by Right to Food Campaign, Odisha (12 August 2012) Inside story (Information received by use of RTI by RTFC, Odisha, 7 October 2012)
PDS in peril (R Ramakumar, Frontline, Volume 28, Issue 24, 19 November - 2 December 2011) PDS Forever? (Ashok Kotwal, Milind Murugkar, Bharat Ramaswami, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
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Ration-Cards for Marginalized Families: a field study in Karnataka (John Abraham, 2006)
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Unfolding Public Distribution System in Madhya Pradesh (Sachin Jain, 2005) The Game of Targeted Public Distribution System in the Life of Tribal Communities of Madhya Pradesh (Sachin Jain, 2005)
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Non-distribution of Antyodaya cards in UP, a case study by AIDWA (Subashini Ali, 2003)
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