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Ensure voting rights for migrant labour

Labour migrants do not only construct buildings, sweep floors, clean trucks, sew clothes and deliver goods. Their movement across the country makes the idea of India a concrete reality for the majority of her poor and impoverished populations.(REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 20, 2019 04:28 pm IST

Is India ready for choice-based PDS?

A PDS shop in Ranchi , Jharkhand.(HT File)

Updated on Feb 20, 2019 05:50 pm IST

Chhattisgarh government likely to set up SIT in PDS scam

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel is likely to set up a special investigation team to re-look at the Public Distribution System (PDS) scam of the previous Bharatiya Janata Party government, in which a charge-sheet too was filed against 12 persons by the state’s anti corruption bureau (ACB) in 2015.(Arijit Sen/HT File Photo)

Published on Dec 28, 2018 07:27 am IST

Addressing hunger will result in other gains too

Even though the Supreme Court has upheld that Aadhaar is mandatory for receiving government subsidies, the legislature can always give the poor some respite from Aadhaar(Getty Images)

Updated on Oct 23, 2018 11:56 am IST

We need a choice-based approach in the Public Distribution System

The availability of DBT may even help improve the existing PDS, as it will have to deliver value for people to continue to choose it over DBT. The economic viability of PDS dealers can be improved by allowing them to stock other products too, so that PDS is not their only source of revenue.(Diwakar Prasad/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 03, 2018 07:24 pm IST

If the Supreme Court could change its mind on Section 377, it will on Aadhaar too

Rajasthani women showing their respective Aadhaar cards while standing in a queue to vote for Ajmer District Panchayat elections.(PTI Photo)

Updated on Sept 27, 2018 08:22 am IST

UP: STF recommends arrest of ration dealers, food dept inspectors

The STF, in its report, has estimated that food grain worth over <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>20 crore might have been siphoned off by scamsters in the last four months.(Representative i mage/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Published on Sept 25, 2018 01:03 pm IST

Laggard for years, Punjab now playing catch-up on smart public distribution system

(HT File)

Updated on Aug 18, 2018 09:32 am IST

Over 6 lakh quintal wheat lying in open at purchase centres in Allahabad division

Reports revealed that out of 831562.30 quintal wheat purchased in Allahabad district, 45877.50 quintal was still lying under the open sky in wheat purchase centres in 20 development blocks of the district.(HT Photo)

Published on Jul 09, 2018 02:30 pm IST

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