Health.Zone Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
  2. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Consumer...

    Public Distribution System. The Indian Public Distribution System (PDS) is a national food security system that distributes subsidised food to India's poor. Major commodities include wheat, rice, sugar and kerosene. Surpluses of food from increased crop yields (as a result of the Green Revolution and good monsoon seasons) are managed by the ...

  3. Ration card (India) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ration_card_(India)

    [25] [26] 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. [27] The state government is preparing to replace about 1,29,00,000 ration cards with the new AP rice card.

  4. Public Distribution System (India) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Distribution_System...

    The Indian minister of agriculture Sharad Pawar meets representatives of the All India Fair Price Shop Dealer's Federation in 2004.. 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.

  5. Aadhaar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar

    Aadhaar (Hindi: आधार, lit. 'base, foundation') [7] is a twelve-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India, based on their biometrics and demographic data. [8] The data is collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a statutory authority established in January 2016 by ...

  6. Antyodaya Anna Yojana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antyodaya_Anna_Yojana

    Antyodaya Anna Yojana. Antyodaya Anna Yojana is the sponsored scheme of Government of India to provide highly subsidised food to millions of the poorest families. This scheme was developed by the then Union Food and Civil Supplies Minister, N Sri Vishnu. It was launched by the NDA government on 25 December 2000 and first implemented in the ...

  7. Administrative divisions of Jharkhand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions...

    Jharkhand state was created as 28th state of India by the Bihar Re-organization Act on 15 November 2000. State was created due to its underdevelopment and social justice. Jharkhand has 5 neighborhood states e.g. Bihar on the North, Orissa on the South, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh on the west West Bengal on the Ea

  8. Government of Jharkhand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Jharkhand

    The Government of Jharkhand also known as the State Government of Jharkhand, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Jharkhand and its 24 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Jharkhand, a judiciary and a legislative branch. Like other states of India, the head of state ...

  9. Jharkhandi cuisine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharkhandi_cuisine

    e. Location map of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Jharkhandi cuisine is the cuisine of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Staple foods are rice, dal and vegetables. [1] Common meals often consist of vegetables that are cooked in various ways, such as curried, fried, roasted and boiled. [2] Many traditional dishes of Jharkhand may not be available ...