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The Public Distribution System ( PDS) is a food security system that was established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution to distribute food and non-food items to India's poor at subsidised rates. Major commodities distributed include staple food grains, such as wheat, rice, sugar and ...
Annual budget. ₹205,765 crore (US$25 billion) (2023–24 est.) Ministers responsible. Piyush Goyal, ( Cabinet Minister) Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, ( Minister of State) Ashwini Kumar Choubey, ( Minister of State) Website. https://consumeraffairs.nic.in/. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is a government ministry of India.
Hemant Soren (born 10 August 1975) is an Indian politician from Jharkhand, who served as the 5th Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2019 to 2024 and from 2013 to 2014. [1] [2] He is also the working president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a political party in Jharkhand. [3] He represents Barhait constituency in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly ...
National Food Security Act, 2013. The National Food Security Act 2013, also known as Right to Food Act, is an Indian Act of Parliament which aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two thirds of the country's 1.4 billion people. [1] It was signed into law on 12 September 2013, retroactive to 5 July 2013.
Jharkhand is located in the eastern part of India and is enclosed by West Bengal to the eastern side, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh to the western side, Bihar to the northern part and Odisha to the southern part. Jharkhand envelops a geographical area of 79,716 square kilometres (30,779 sq mi).
The Lok Sabha (meaning "House of the People") is the lower house of the Parliament of India, elected by the state electorates of Jharkhand. Current constituencies. Keys: BJP (12) INC (0) JMM (1) AJSU (1) Source: Parliament of India (Lok Sabha)
Because the PDS computer system is connected to a central server, beneficiaries can buy ration items from any PDS shop. The system is flexible and provides access and options to the public that was not seen before in PDS. The state government is preparing to replace about 1,29,00,000 ration cards with the new AP rice card.
His successor Arjun Munda, also from the BJP, is the longest-serving chief minister; he served for over five years, across three terms but never completed a full term. Three chief ministers, Shibu Soren, his son Hemant Soren, and Champai Soren, represented the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Shibu Soren's first term ended in just ten days, as he ...