A study has detected annual leakages of ₹69,000 crore in the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana — the Modi government’s free foodgrain scheme. In volume terms, this amounts to 28 per cent of the ...
Despite initial slowdowns in procurement because of the storage crunch in Punjab last month, the government’s paddy procurement drive at the minimum support price (MSP) has picked up pace in the ...