Harikishan Sharma

“Earlier, UP was receiving 3 kg wheat and 2 kg rice per person per month under the NFSA, which has now been changed to 2 kg wheat and 3 kg rice,” a UP government official told The Indian Express.

Addressing the Conference of State Food Ministers on Food and Nutrition Security in India, Piyush Goyal said, “So far, the sowing of rice is 16 per cent lower than the normal level nationally.”

Among big states and UTs, Goa came last while Ladakh ended up at the bottom place among smaller states and UTs.

Under the Modi government, there has been a radical change in lives of poor people, Shah said, adding people are now getting basic facilities.

The CCPA was established in July 2020 under The Consumer Protection Act, 2019, to promote, protect, and enforce the rights of consumers as a class, and to investigate, prosecute, and punish violators.

Aggrieved consumers may lodge complaints on the National Consumer Helpline by calling 1915 or through the NCH mobile app or the e-daakhil portal.

The National Archive of India has made public the records of “Gift of Mango Saplings from the Prime Minister of India to the Government of China”.

The data, obtained from the NREGA portal, shows that 2.61 crore households worked under the scheme in May 2022, which is 39 lakh – or 17.39 per cent – higher than 2.22 crore in the corresponding month of last year.

Says they should undertake institutional reforms

The records show that officials of 48 of 77 Central government departments (62 per cent) did not attend the June 2 meeting, chaired by Secretary, Ex-Servicemen Welfare, to discuss 'means to enhance the representation of ESM in Central Civil Services & Posts'.

Of the 10,84,705 Group C employees in the 34 Central government departments, only 13,976 were ex-servicemen. And of the total 3,25,265 Group D employees, only 8,642 were ex-servicemen.

As part of the I2U2 initiative, US President Joe Biden will hold a virtual summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during his visit to West Asia from July 13 to 16.

Sources said while it is not easy to undertake such large-scale recruitment in a short span of 18 months, the bigger challenge will be post-recruitment training and induction, and later promotions.

In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “reviewed the status of Human Resources in all departments and ministries.”

China is now the top buyer of Indian broken rice, which was earlier exported mostly to African countries.

The SFSI is released annually for a financial year. For instance, the latest SFSI, released on World Food safety Day, June 7, is for the fiscal 2021-22. This is the fourth edition of the SFSI since its inception in 2018-19.

On June 8, the Centre announced the MSP at the rate of Rs 2,040 per quintal for paddy (Common) and Rs 2,060 per quintal for paddy (Grade A) for the kharif marketing season 2022-23.

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Speaking to The Indian Express from Jaipur, Mehrishi, who retired as CAG in August 2020, said he picked up pickle-making as a hobby while he was a joint secretary in the 1990s.

The MSP of paddy (common) has been increased by 5.15 per cent from Rs 1,940 per quintal in 2021-22 to Rs 2,040 quintal for 2022-23.

With its new special teams, such as the ‘Fertilizers Flying Squad’, the department has, since May, unearthed several cases where highly subsidised urea was diverted to private industrial units.

Sources in the J&K administration said they would not agree to demands for transfer of minority community employees from Kashmir to Jammu. “

According to 2017 guidelines, charging for anything other than “prices displayed on the menu card along with the applicable taxes”, without “express consent” of the customer, is “unfair trade practices”, the Union Consumer Affair, Food and Public Distribution Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Modi was born on September 17, 1950 at Vadnagar in Gujarat's Mehsana district. According to the BJP’s website, he left home at the age of 17 and embarked upon “Bharat Bhraman (journey of India)”. He had then travelled across the country, including the Himalayas.