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Surpluses of food from increased crop yields (as a result of the Green Revolution and good monsoon seasons) are managed by the Food Corporation of India, established by the Food Corporation Act 1964. The system implements national policy for farm price support, operations, procurement, storage, preservation, inter-state movement and distribution.
Merged to form Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs with three departments - Department of Food & Civil Supplies, Department of Sugar and Edible Oils and Department of Consumer Affairs. On 15 October 1999, the new ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution, having the same three departments.
The program is operated by the Department of Food and Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. But the nodal ministry is Ministry of Finance.The scale of this welfare scheme makes it the largest food security program in the world benefiting 81.35 crore (approximately 56.81% population) in India ...
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.
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is a public sector company. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution , formed by the enactment of Food Corporation Act, 1964 [ 2 ] by the Parliament of India .
Pages in category "Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution [2] Source: [1] Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya (also spelled as Bambhania ) is an Indian politician , social worker and incumbent Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha for the Bhavnagar Lok Sabha constituency and Minister of State in government of India as a member ...
Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi [2] (born 27 November 1962) is an Indian politician who is the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and the Minister of New and Renewable Energy since 2024. [3] He was also the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, the Minister of Coal and the Minister of Mines from 2019 to 2024.