Wheat For The Poor

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced distribution of 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of preferred pulses free-of-cost every month over the next three months to the 80 crore poor across the country to deal with the economic impact of the lockdown amid coronavirus outbreak.

The Gujarat government will provide food items like wheat, rice, pulses and sugar free of cost to around 60 lakh ration card holding families through fair price shops starting April 1, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said today.

A businessman from Aurangabad district in Maharashtra gifted 90 houses to the poor as a wedding gift on the occasion of his daughter's wedding.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today ordered an inquiry into the 'adulterated' wheat flour allegedly supplied to poor people on Christmas as a gift by the state government.

Accusing Congress of being "arrogant", Narendra Modi today said that despite the Supreme Court court, its government did not distribute the excess wheat lying in government godowns to the poor but instead sold it to breweries for filling "wine bottles".

India, the world's second-biggest rice and wheat producer, sets a price to buy the grains from local farmers to build reserves for running the its huge food welfare plan for the poor and protect growers from having to sell at a loss.

The Cabinet today cleared the Food Security Bill. The Bill says 75 per cent of the rural population and 50 per cent of the poor in urban India - about 800 million people - will be entitled to five kilos of subsidised grain per month. Rice will be made available at Rs. 3 a kilo; wheat will cost Rs. 2 a kilo and cereal will be sold for Rs. 1 per kilo...

The government appears likely to offer 3 million tons of wheat to commercial biscuit makers and flour mills and another 10 million tons at cheap prices to the poor before its huge stockpiles start to rot. A ministers' meeting to decide on offering wheat to businesses, including biscuit maker Britannia Industries, and to state governments for distri...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced distribution of 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of preferred pulses free-of-cost every month over the next three months to the 80 crore poor across the country to deal with the economic impact of the lockdown amid coronavirus outbreak.

The Gujarat government will provide food items like wheat, rice, pulses and sugar free of cost to around 60 lakh ration card holding families through fair price shops starting April 1, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said today.

A businessman from Aurangabad district in Maharashtra gifted 90 houses to the poor as a wedding gift on the occasion of his daughter's wedding.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today ordered an inquiry into the 'adulterated' wheat flour allegedly supplied to poor people on Christmas as a gift by the state government.

Accusing Congress of being "arrogant", Narendra Modi today said that despite the Supreme Court court, its government did not distribute the excess wheat lying in government godowns to the poor but instead sold it to breweries for filling "wine bottles".

India, the world's second-biggest rice and wheat producer, sets a price to buy the grains from local farmers to build reserves for running the its huge food welfare plan for the poor and protect growers from having to sell at a loss.

The Cabinet today cleared the Food Security Bill. The Bill says 75 per cent of the rural population and 50 per cent of the poor in urban India - about 800 million people - will be entitled to five kilos of subsidised grain per month. Rice will be made available at Rs. 3 a kilo; wheat will cost Rs. 2 a kilo and cereal will be sold for Rs. 1 per kilo...

The government appears likely to offer 3 million tons of wheat to commercial biscuit makers and flour mills and another 10 million tons at cheap prices to the poor before its huge stockpiles start to rot. A ministers' meeting to decide on offering wheat to businesses, including biscuit maker Britannia Industries, and to state governments for distri...