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- IE: Food Bill: Govt looking at flexible plan, may exclude 33% population: July 19, 2012
- IE: No mechanism to check income of ration card applicants: State: June 29, 2012
- HT: A collective liability: November 28, 2011
- IE: The food security bill should serve to transfer resources to states: October 14, 2011
- IE: Food Bill must have strong safeguards for cash transfer: Dreze: October 03, 2011
- LM: A revived PDS is visible now: August 17, 2011
- IE: Activists ask PM to dump Food Bill: August 03, 2011
- DNA: Dear PM, PDS better than cash: August 01, 2011
- LM: The politics of foodgrain management: July 20, 2011
- HT: Govt waters down NAC draft of food law: July 19, 2011
- IE: Link food subsidy to UID smart card: Plan panel: July 05, 2011
- DNA: Proposed food security bill treats mother as family head: July 01, 2011
- IE: NAC clears food security Bill draft: June 23, 2011
- LM: A crisis of food management: June 22, 2011
- HT: State to check irregularities in public distribution system: April 07, 2011
- LM: Making cash subsidies work: April 06, 2011
- LM: The flip side of cash subsidies: March 30, 2011
- IE: A platter of choices: March 28, 2011
- LM: Plan panel member makes a case for universalization of PDS: March 24, 2011
- IE: PDS coupons in Bihar to be bar-coded from June: March 07, 2011
- HT: The invisible hand: March 03, 2011
- HT: HC to check irregularities in public distribution system: February 23, 2011
- HT: Cashing in on PDS reforms: February 16, 2011
- HT: This is not a pipeline: February 16, 2011
- DNA: Want to empower the poor? Give them cash: February 09, 2011
- TOI: Deregulation: Solving diesel conundrum: January 28, 2011
- IE: Don’t water down food security: January 19, 2011
- LM: A flawed approach to food security: January 19, 2011
- HT: India’s corrupt system of indirect subsidies can’t deliver inclusive growth: December 09, 2010
- MM: Food for rot: Kids cant digest free mid-day meal: December 01, 2010
- BS: Rice-for-poor scheme runs into scams: November 12, 2010
- TOI: Think Beyond PDS: October 28, 2010
- HT:Excess food stocks in the godowns then why are officials shying away from releasing them to poor
- LM: Planning Commission suggests reforms to plug leakages in PDS: October 08, 2010
- LM: India’s entitlement dilemmas: September 24, 2010
- TOI: Nagar in deep trouble over PDS graft: September 17, 2010
- IE: Cash transfers are the only solution to a PDS that doesn’t work: September 02, 2010
- LM: SC lashes out at govt on food distribution: September 01, 2010
- IE: The Great PDS Scam: August 25, 2010
- TOI: Acting against hunger: August 25, 2010
- LM: Ensuring food security: August 02, 2010
- HT: FCI corruption, arbitrary policies lead to grain rot: July 28, 2010
- LM: SC resets contours of the debate: July 29, 2010
- LM: Instead of feeding the poor, India lets grain rot: July 26, 2010
- LM: Instead of feeding the poor, India lets grain rot: July 26, 2010
- IE: The arithmetic of dal, atta and rice: July 24, 2010
- IE: Pulses heartbeat: July 24, 2010
- IE: Demand-driven destiny: July 22, 2010
- LM: Universal PDS only to the poorest: NAC: July 15, 2010
- TOI: Smart card project kicks off in UT: July 15, 2010
- LM: PDS goes smart in haryana: July 14, 2010
- HT: Chhattisgarhs food revolution: July 12, 2010
- LM: Food bill: NAC asserts itself: July 12, 2010
- IE:Why making subsidised foodgrain available to all will devastate agriculture,our finances,& PDS
- LM: PDS link to help end corruption: July 08, 2010
- LM: UPA blinks, paves wayfor food security law: June 23, 2010
- ET: Card smart version of food coupon: Montek: May 03, 2010
- ET: The food coupons plan will remove some of the ills that plague Indias targeted PDS: April 27,10
- BS: The paradox of hunger amidst potential plenty: April 18, 2010
- HT: Failures of India’s anti-hunger efforts: March 29, 2010
- HT: Govt starts buying this year’s bumper harvest from India’s largest grain market: March 31, 2010
- BS: Rice at Rs 2 leaves them hungry: July 24, 2009
- ET: Striking against hunger: July 17, 2009
- LM: Cheaper grain’s only one part of a Food Security Act: June 24, 2009
- ET: Tackling Indias malnutrition problem: June 18, 2009
- IE: How food security laws could hurt the poorest: June 17, 2009
- LM: UPA’s proposed food security law faces big challenges: June 10, 2009
- IE: Food for all on govts agenda: June 01, 2009
- LM: Unnecessary food mountain: March 26, 2009
- TOI: Centre may home-deliver grains throughout India: Feb 23, 2009
- DNA: Wasted: 10 lakh tonnes of foodgrains by FCI: July 03, 2008
- IE: Pune, Mumbai to have bar coded, biometric ration cards in six months: May 05, 2008
- TOI: MBA students offer rice-dal for Rs 5/plate in Vashi: March 27, 2008
- ET:Regulating the Warehousing Sector : Feb. 08 2008 (jpg)
- TOI : An Attempt to Profiteer From the PDS is Thwarted, But the Rot Runs Deep : Apr 25, 2007
- Dismantle PDS And Issue Entitlement Stamps:Feb 28,2007: TOI Mumbai
- Subsidy And Corruption
- PDS Kerosene: Assisting The Poor or Serving The Rich?
- Government Acts
- The Prevention of Black Marketing And Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980
- The Public Distribution System (Control) (Amendment) Order, 2004
- The Public Distribution System Control, 2001
- The Standards of Weights And Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1985
- The Essential commodities (Special Provisions) Act, 1981
- The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2006
- The Standards of Weights And Measures Act, 1976
- The Essential Commodities Act, 1955
- Rationing Rules and Card Holder’s Rights
- Rules
- Schemes
- List of NGOs / Organisations / Institutions working on PDS
- Overview of PDS
- White Papers on PDS