With bursting godowns and a bumper Rabi crop, how is the govt ensuring that migrant workers who are stranded and the poor are not going hungry during the pandemic?
Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has assured that India's godowns are stocked with 63mn tonnes of grain and can feed 81 crore beneficiaries of the PDS system for 9 months.
The govt has also unveiled the One Nation One Ration Card scheme of which 16 states and UTs are now part of, which ensures that all beneficiaries can avail their entitled food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from any fair-price shop in the country with the same ration card