The food and civil supplies department of Jharkhand has launched an online e-book Aahar Patrika to bring transparency to ration distribution through the public distribution system (PDS).
The online e...
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren reminded people of the starvation deaths during the erstwhile BJP-led government and patted his own government as nobody died of hunger even during the Covid lock...
A young girl and her brother from a village in Chakulia block of East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand, both suffering from sickle cell anaemia, are now in a dilemma on eating rice.
For Vandana Patro,...
Kuruganti was part of a “fact-finding” team that visited five panchayats in Jharkhand’s Khunti and East Singhbhum districts where they met public distribution system beneficiaries, d...
The UDISE Plus report for 2020-21, released last week, shows a further dip by 521 to 1,032,049, the relatively smaller decline presumably owing to a slowdown in school mergers amid the pandemic.
Whil...
Many people are going hungry. That is what the Hunger Watch Survey II, conducted in December 2021 and January 2022 by the non-governmental organization, Right to Food Campaign, found when studying the...
Economist Sunil Ray, former director of the A.N. Sinha Institute in Patna, attributed the findings to the decline in jobs and income.
“If people have income and money, they will spend on food a...
A joint delegation of the Right to Food Campaign and Phia (Partnering Hope Into Action) Foundation, a charity, on Saturday met Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and requested against any cuts on f...
“The rest got the free grain only for only some months. Amongst those without a NFSA ration card, almost a third had applied for a card, but had not obtained one. Another 18 per cent were unawar...
A delegation of the Jharkhand chapter of Right to Food Campaign met food and public distribution minister Rameshwar Oraon here on Wednesday and urged the government to ensure that all eligible persons...