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With this, states could distribute the six months’ quota of foodgrain at one stretch under the Targeted Public Distribution System. In a communication sent to the Chief Ministers of all states/UTs, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs ...
May 26, 2012 at 04:28 | Source: Express Buzz
the public distribution system has become totally crippled, advocate Rakesh Meihoubam has asserted. Speaking as a resource person at a day-long training programme for Para-legal volunteers organized by Manipur State Legal Services Authority at the ...
May 26, 2012 at 22:36 | Source: E-pao.net
New Delhi: With its granaries overflowing and record food production for the third year in a row, the central government decided to allow states to lift and distribute six months' quota of food grains under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS ...
May 25, 2012 at 04:43 | Source: Silicon India
The government today claimed there has been an ''impressive improvement'' in the performance of the targeted public distribution system (TPDS), with leakage reduced to about 10-15 per cent on average now from 40 per cent earlier. "The leakage, on an ...
May 24, 2012 at 13:06 | Source: Deccan Herald
The State Secretary of the CPI(M) Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami in a statement here this afternoon has exhorted the government to overhaul power distribution system to avoid public wrath. He rued the phenomenon of recurring damages to transformers across the ...
May 21, 2012 at 16:01 | Source: New Kerala
For public distribution system (PDS), the requirement of foodgrain is 62-63 million tonne, he said adding record production has created problem of plenty. "While creation of adequate storage facilities was suggested for the long term ...
May 21, 2012 at 09:13 | Source: MoneyControl.com
The definition of a family is used as basic criteria for the public distribution system, public health schemes, income certificates etc, and various departments have been using their own definitions to disburse benefits.  Now, the state feels ...
May 16, 2012 at 03:50 | Source: Mid Day.com
The service enables citizens to submit and verify the ration cards online. However, the public distribution system is not without its share of inherent problems because of the cut in Central allocation of kerosene quota. Kerosene allocation to the state in ...
May 26, 2012 at 00:17 | Source: deccanchronicle.com
In the meantime, Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution minister M Okendro has stated that an effective system has been devised to properly distribute PDS items throughout the state and prevent black marketeering. Sleuths of the Special Intelligence ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: kanglaonline.com
Beginning Jan. 1, utilities can apply to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to impose so-called distribution system improvement charges. The approval process will be faster than the one in place for typical rate hikes, but there are ...
May 15, 2012 at 04:05 | Source: Reading Eagle