'UBI can help people plan their lives properly'

As govt announces basic income for small farmers in its interim budget 2019, Down To Earth talks to Sarath Davala, who led a pilot study on UBI …

The PDS learning curve

Tike tike in Orissa

Public Deprived System

The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system

Parliament committee proposes no increase in foodgrain entitlement in Food Security Bill

States given the responsibility of expanding food security net to cover more households

Model in a fix

Chhattisgarh's much appreciated public distribution scheme is falling apart due to corruption and mismanagement

Left demands right to food for every Indian

Begins five-day sit in protest at Jantar Mantar

PM should head food security bill: M S Swaminathan

Giving right to food is not enough to deliver food, say speakers at a conference on food security

Prime Minister’s Logic

Unique identity crisis

Biometric-based unique identity or Aadhaar is leading to huge problems for people working for the rural employment guarantee scheme and for …

Unravelling the food mess

Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in …

Include millets in PDS for food and nutritional security, demand scientists

Area under cultivation of millets is declining in spite of national Food Security Mission

Cash transfers do not benefit

Jitendra visited three districts in Rajasthan to meet people who are supposed beneficiaries of UPA government’s much-touted Direct Benefit …

Hunger stalks government schools in West Bengal

Pilot survey under Project Dipankar in four prosperous districts shows 87 per cent class I students of government schools are undernourished