Protecting the poor from a rise in food prices remains a global policy priority. Indian households spend 45% of their income on food and many poor households rely on government subsidized grains for ...

The publication, in February 2024, of a household consumption survey by the National Sample Survey (NSS) Office, after a gap of over a decade, has made it possible to estimate the poverty rate in ...

Over 50,000 beneficiaries of the public distribution system in the district will be removed from the list of households eligible for ration as the central government has amended the rules to weed out ...