Dying for ration: 7-year wait for Jharkhand couple to receive PDS benefits

Village residents say ration cards of many cancelled, including those from Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups

One nation one ration card: How many know about it

Facilities of inter-state portability for food security and selecting a fair price ration shop of one’s choice has been availed by 58% …

Need a national policy to combat viral and other diseases with pandemic potential: Parliamentary report

Report also made observations about the failure of implementing the One Nation One Ration Card scheme among migrant workers

Dying for ration: Deep in debt, Rajasthan villagers sell animals

Many across the state say received no ration for years; no help from authorities 

Dying for ration: No health aid for those without PDS cards

Ground report from Jharkhand villages shows many pending applications; Rejected applicants told quota for beneficiaries full

Dying for ration: Tonk woman bringing up family on Rs 200 a day not eligible for PDS welfare

Ill-treated by husband for not birthing a boy, free ration would mean not worrying about feeding her daughters

Dying for ration: Tribal beneficiaries of Jharkhand PDS don’t have salt, surviving on plain boiled rice

Ration cards for many cancelled; Landless villagers migrate to city for work

Dying for ration: These Barmer widows and orphans are being turned away from PDS shops

Settlement has lost most of its men to liquor abuse; Women work as waste pickers

Dying for ration: A DTE series on ration card beneficiaries

Down To Earth highlighted families who were unable to receive benefits of ration cards due to glitches in the system

DTE Impact: 70-year-old supporting mentally-ill daughter, disabled son-in-law to get her dream cowshed

District collector sanctions Rs 2 lakh, plot of land on lease for family among other benefits

Simply Put: Green Card

COVID-19: Poor hit as ration shops run out of grains in Chitrakoot

Several ration shops in MP, UP haven’t had wheat for weeks, claim residents  

Stepping on the PDS snake in Dantewada

Aparna Pallavi reveals her near miss with Naxals while enquiring about PDS

Dying for ration: Centre to give free foodgrains to 813 million from New Year, but what of those excluded

Coverage of the National Food Security Act is still done on the basis of the outdated 2011 Census  

One Nation One Ration Card: Good intention but implementation may be difficult

The nature, price and quantity of items supplied through the public distribution system varies from state to state

One Nation, One Ration Card and the hurdles ahead

While this scheme would bring perceptible changes to the lives of India’s internal migrant workers, challenges lie ahead in designing and …

Only allocated rice in rations, people sell it to buy expensive wheat

Wheat prices have shot up in the market following a reduced production this year 

Widow denied ration starves to death in Jharkhand's Garhwa

The victim's family was denied their monthly entitlement of 25 kg of grains under the National Food Security Act for three months

Over 90 million excluded from PDS entitlement: Report

Many states still skip including vulnerable groups as automatic beneficiaries  

Implement ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ by July 31: Supreme Court

It also asked states to bring in an appropriate scheme for distribution of dry ration to migrant labourers till COVID-19 pandemic lasts &…

Small incentive, big draw: How an officer makes PDS work

Jyoti Kakwani plugs pilferage in fair price shops by giving surprise gifts to those who demand receipts from the shopkeeper

Dying for ration: Biometric glitches in Rajasthan villages keep the poor hungry

Valid ration card holders turned away from PDS shops as fingerprints don't match in records

Dying for ration: Denied full benefits, 62-year-old widow eats a meal a day to survive

Around 80 households out of 250 denied PDS welfare in Baramsar

One nation one ration card: Odisha to soon start dry ration scheme for migrant workers

The apex court had directed all states and Union territories June 29 to formulate an appropriate scheme to provide dry ration to migrant workers …

Free foodgrain until Diwali: What about migrants, those without ration cards?

Around 100 million Indians are excluded from the public distribution system, according to economists