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He can also avail his e-ration card (department of Food & Supplies Government of West Bengal), birth and death (department of Health and Family Welfare), disability or backward classes certificates (Backward Classes Welfare Department) all from the same online window assisted by the data entry operators, free of cost. [9]
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.
However, in 2009, the number of BBL ration cards was issued by the State Government and Union Territories was 10.96 crore. [6] [7] By linking ration cards with Aadhaar cards, 5.8 crore fake ration cards have been eliminated [8] [9] and 20.4 crore BBL ration cards are in regular use. [10] [11] [12] [13]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that an additional 5 kg of food grains would be provided for free of cost to each person in the household those holding an Antyodaya and Priority ration card. where Anthyodaya and Priority ration card holders had been receiving subsidized food grains under the Prime Minister's ...
Ration card is issued by Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation to family residing in Tamil Nadu. It consists of Head of family Photograph with all the family members name, age, sex, No. of LPG connections printed on the backside of the card with full residential address of family.
The Price Increase and Famine Resistance Committee was a mass movement in West Bengal, India, formed in late 1958 by the Communist Party of India and other left groups, in response to the ongoing food crisis. The PIFRC led one of the most massive and militant political campaigns in the history of West Bengal.
West Bengal (/ b ɛ n ˈ ɡ ɔː l /; Bengali: Pōścimabôṅgô, pronounced [ˈpoʃtʃimˈbɔŋɡo] ⓘ, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of 88,752 km 2 (34,267 sq mi) as of 2011.
Rathin Ghosh is currently the Food and Supplies Minister of West Bengal in the third Mamata Banerjee Government. He is an Indian politician belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress . He was elected as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Madhyamgram in 2011, 2016, and 2021.