Food Subsidies
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Video: Are the Aadhaar-linked welfare schemes leaving India’s poor hungry?
Testimonies from people who have been denied several entitlements due to the mandatory integration of welfare schemes like PDS with Aadhaar.
Aabid Shafi
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Food Corporation lost Rs 35,701 crore during 2011-2016 because government delayed payments, says CAG
The Comptroller and Auditor General also blamed the Food Corporation of allowing five lakh tonnes of food grains to rot in Punjab.
Mridula Chari
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Tamil Nadu finally adopts Food Security Act, by adding crores to its subsidy bill
The state, with its own efficient universal public distribution system, resisted the national law for three years. It has now implemented it with modifications.
Vinita Govindarajan
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Which way will Aam Aadmi canteens go: up like Amma kitchens or down like Zunka Bhakar stalls?
The Delhi government has announced a scheme to provide low-cost meals to the urban poor. Similar programmes launched by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have had very different results.
Aarefa Johari
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Modi government’s cash for food experiment gets a quiet burial in Puducherry
The union territory began transferring cash into people's back accounts instead of handing out rice in February. Around eight weeks later, it stopped.
Anumeha Yadav