Tag: pds
Decoding govt’s wheat strategy: Can higher procurement push and export quota hike lift the sector?
Last week the government raised its wheat procurement target by 15% to 34.5 million tonnes (MT) and approved an additional 2.5 MT of exports to…
DPIIT rolls out multi-sectoral regulatory relaxations to bolster industrial supply chains
New Delhi: The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has implemented a comprehensive suite of regulatory measures and orders across various industrial…
Stockholding limit withdrawn on wheat on sufficient supply
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said it has withdrawn the stockholding limit on wheat as there is a comfortable stock in the domestic market…
Goodbye VCRs, hello OTT: India’s inflation basket prepares for a reset
India’s inflation gauge is preparing for an overahul, shedding relics of the past as most Indians have made smartphones, streaming and app-based services a part…
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi asks states to create more foodgrain storage facilities
New Delhi: Union Food Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday asked all state governments to create more storage facilities for foodgrains amid the rising procurement of…
MoSPI proposes to add free PDS items to inflation index
The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) released a discussion paper suggesting that free food grains distributed under the Public Distribution System (PDS) be…